I Advised a Student to Not Publish Evidence of Reverse Racism

A Conversation with E.O. Wilson

Fund Science on the Basis of Scientists‘ Work, Not Their Identity

The Universal Structure of Storytelling

Newly published research indicates that people who more frequently signal their victimhood (whether real, exaggerated, or false) are more likely to lie and cheat for material gain and denigrate others as a means to get ahead.

Silicon Valley’s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers

In praise of the novelization, pop fiction’s least reputable genre

The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism

Leaving Portland

Have universities abandoned their commitment to free thought and ideas?

My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough

A Defense of Offensive Jokes

Celebrating Two Canadian POWs Who Took Down an Entire Japanese Shipyard in WW2

Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable

Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why Is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

We Lost Our Way on Human Rights

Ordeal by Title IX

Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise

It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowards Who Let It Happen

Is State Protection a Threat to Liberal Democracy?

Enough with the Phoney 'Lockdown' Debate

Covid-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons

The Two Middle Classes

Demoted and Placed on Probation

Bloody Harvest–How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century

James Flynn's Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Pulled

I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn’t Popular

'Virtue Signalling' May Annoy Us but Civilization Would Be Impossible Without It

The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’

I work in an Amazon warehouse in West Sacramento

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