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State Of The Newsletter, 2021

Friday Open Thread, 12/31/2021 (NEW YEAR'S EVE EDITION)

It Isn't Cool Or Interesting To Reflexively Mock Earnestness

There's So Much Justice Going On I Can Hardly Stand It

Discussion Thread For There's So Much Justice Going On I Can Hardly Stand It

In 2022, Let's Hope Fewer Writers Call For Blacklists And Corporate Censorship

Discussion Thread For In 2022, Let's Hope Fewer Writers Call For Blacklists And Corporate Censorship

Free-Speech Skeptics Still Haven't Come Up With Any Decent Alternatives To What We've Got

Discussion Thread For Free-Speech Skeptics Still Haven't Come Up With Any Decent Alternatives To What We've Got

Friday Open Thread, 12/17/2021

Pro-Justice Organizations Should Stop Pretending All Justice-Deficits Are Connected

Discussion Thread For Pro-Justice Organizations Should Stop Pretending All Justice-Deficits Are Connected

Friday Open Thread, 12/10/2021

We Should All Stop Pretending We Pick Our Experts For The Right Reasons

Discussion Thread For We Should All Stop Pretending We Pick Our Experts For The Right Reasons

I'm Looking To Hire A Social-Science-Savvy Researcher (Applications Now Closed)

Liberal Condescension And Statistical Dishonesty Won't Help Crime Victims (Unlocked)

Discussion Thread For Liberal Condescension And Statistical Dishonesty Won't Help Crime Victims

Liberal Condescension And Statistical Dishonesty Won't Help Crime Victims

On Tim Pool And Ideological Capture And Online Cruelty

I'm Launching A New Podcast Tonight And I'd Like You To Come On It

The Compulsion To Broadcast Opinions About Everything Is A Terrible Drug

I Don’t Like Watching The Institutions I Respect Melt Down Into A Single Congealed Unprincipled Gloop

"Let's Make Unreasonable Rhetorical Demands Of The People Who We Want On Our Side"

Friday Open Thread, 11/19/2021

Friday Open Thread, 11/12/2021

If You Believe In Structural Racism, You Believe In Pipeline Problems

Here Are My Contemporaneous Articles About The Kyle Rittenhouse Shootings, Now Unlocked

Friday Open Thread, 11/5/2021

If Democrats Get Destroyed By The "Critical Race Theory" Backlash, It'll Be Their Own Fault

People With Big Platforms Have Some Responsibility To Tamp Down Online Derangement, Or At Least Not Contribute To It So Enthusiastically

How About This November We All Try To Chill Out A Bit

Friday Open Thread, 10/29/2021

Win A Copy Of "The Status Game," Which Isn't Even Coming Out In The States Until Mid-2022

It Probably Makes More Sense To Banish College Admissions Essays Than To Banish SAT Scores

So What's The Strategy Here, Exactly?

Friday Open Thread, 10/15/2021

Social-Justice Blowups Are Mostly About Intraelite Jockeying

We Don't Have Good Data About Social Media Harming Teenagers, But We Shouldn't Write This Off As A "Moral Panic," Either

What's The Difference Between Normal Tears And "White Women's Tears"? Popularity

Friday Open Thread, 10/8/2021

Liberal Organizations Should Not — And Boy Is It Crazy That I Have To Type This — Explicitly Denounce Objectivity And Rigor

Aurora James, The Designer Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Tax The Rich" Dress, Said She Started A 501(c)(3) To Help Black Businesses. Her Organization Is Not A 501(c)(3)

Friday Open Thread, 10/1/2021

What It's Like To Be A Pedophile's Psychologist

An Emeritus Editor At Science-Based Medicine Just Sent This Letter To Steven Novella Criticizing The Site's Recent Turn Away From Rigorous Science

The Phrase "Pregnant Women" Doesn't Exclude Anyone

On The Toll Of Living In An Age Of Endless, Ubiquitous, Exhausting Bullshit

Friday Open Thread, 9/17/2021

How To Participate In Open Threads, Which Are Starting In 2̶3̶ 22 Minutes

The Spat Between Graham Linehan And Laurie Penny Shows Why U.K. Defamation Law Is Very Silly And Counterproductive

Did The Guardian Censor Judith Butler's Vital Gender Insights In A Misguided Attempt To Appease Incorrigible Bigots?

Catastrophe, One Year Later

Some Mainstream Outlets Can't Even Perform Basic Newsgathering Functions Anymore

Win A Copy Of "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News" By Eric Berkowitz

Knowledge Will Out, But In The Meantime Politically Motivated Attempts To Suppress It Can Cause A Lot Of Harm

The Problem Of Neglected Comparisons In Research On Race And Racism

Let's Watch The Progressive Fake-News Problem Get Worse In Real Time

When Will America Confront Its Culture-Writing Crisis?

I Don't Want The United States To Do Anything Like This Ever Again, But Of Course We Will

Journalism Is In A Weird Place Right Now, Video Games Edition

The Gang Tries To Convince A Colorado Judge That The Presidential Election Was Stolen

Privileged, Highly Educated People Are Rapidly Colonizing The Racial-Justice Conversation

Catching Up On Reader Feedback: Let's Talk A Bit More About Asexuality And Self-ID In Locker Rooms And Other Fun Subjects

Win A Copy Of "T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us"

On Wi Spa And Our Stunted National Conversation About Self-ID

$300 Per Child, Per Month, Matters A Hell Of A Lot More Than The Garbage We Waste So Much Time Arguing About

Let's Look Closely At Some Of Marty Seligman's Claims About The Penn Resilience Program

Great Job Deplatforming Andy Ngo And Abigail Shrier, You Guys

Science-Based Medicine's Coverage Of "Irreversible Damage" Included About 19 Errors, False Claims About Three Sex Researchers, Made-Up Quotes, And Endless Misinformation

Humans Have Deep-Seated, Deranged Impulses Toward Punitive Behavior That Civilization Needs To Keep In Check

How Science-Based Medicine Botched Its Coverage Of The Youth Gender Medicine Debate

Great Job Deplatforming Andy Ngo And Abigail Shrier, You Guys (Unlocked)

Your Personality Is Not A Sexual Orientation

Apropos Of Nothing, A Defense Of Meaty-Tasting Fake Meat

Republican Bills Attempting To Ban Critical Race Theory Are Bad, But So Is Media Fearmongering About Them

The Market For Religious Rituals That Can Scrub White People's Souls Of Racism Is Red-Hot

On Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Invisible Identities, And Weaponized Fragility

Even During A Reckoning, Mind Reading Is Bad

Free-Speech Skeptics Don't Really Have Much Of A Theory Of Anything

Does The Racial Microaggressions Scale Actually Measure Exposure To Microaggressions?

Does The Racial Microaggressions Scale Actually Measure Exposure To Microaggressions? (Unlocked)

The Media’s Lab-Leak Humiliation Is A Useful Reminder Of Why Journalism Needs Its Noodges

Race Essentialists Are Philosophically Confused

What GLAAD and the ACLU Did This Week Is Disturbing, But Unsurprising (Update)

On Kamala Harris's Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters (Unlocked)

On Kamala Harris’s Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters

On Kamala Harris’s Privileged Upbringing And Why It Matters (Unlocked)

We Can Acknowledge Some Critical Race Theory Concepts Are Undercooked Without Turning Into Frothing Obsessed Idiots

A Misleading New Yorker Article About Prison Abolition Highlights Mainstream Media's Most Glaring Weakness

ACLU Lawyer: Teehee, My Organization Isn't *Technically* Defaming Anyone!

What The Guardian’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Attempting To Publish An Accurate Article About Substack Can Tell Us About How Twitter-Truth Is Colonizing Reality

A Bit More On Ma’khia Bryant And Police Violence

What Is The Goal Of Our Great Big Gender Conversation?, Part 2

The Daily Beast's Coverage Of The Killing Of Ma’khia Bryant Has Been Wildly Irresponsible

What Is The Goal Of Our Great Big Gender Conversation? (Unlocked)

What Is The Goal Of Our Great Big Gender Conversation?

Social Science Is Hard: Resume Audit Studies Edition

Please Write About Suicide In A Responsible Way

Please Write About Suicide In A Responsible Way

Please Preorder "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills" Today If You Can

A (Sorta) Quick Response To The Errors In Emily Gorcenski's Article, "Jesse Singal Got More Wrong Than He Thinks" (Updated)

Of Course 'Objective' Newswriting Can Transmit An Opinion!

On The Benefits Of Somewhat Foggy Goggles

Of Course Suspected Criminals Should Be Allowed To Raise Money For Their Legal Defenses Online

If You Want To Help Vulnerable People, You Need To Turn Them Into Faceless Abstract Units (Unlocked)

If You Want To Help Vulnerable People, You Need To Turn Them Into Faceless Abstract Units

GLAAD Took False, Previously Disproven Internet Scuttlebutt And Used It To Justify Putting Me On A List Of Supposed Anti-LGBT Bigots (Updated)

"Moral Clarity" Sounds Like A Great Concept In Theory, But Journalists Embrace It In A Wildly Inconsistent And Opportunistic Manner

People Seem To Have Feelings Rather Than Beliefs These Days (Updated)

Apologies!

I'm Worried That Progressive Universalism Is On Life Support

Check Out How Much Effort It Takes To Respond To A Single Lie-Stuffed Tweetstorm Distorting My Work On Youth Gender Dysphoria

"You Shouldn't Spread Misinformation" Is Now A Controversial Belief Among Many Journalists

Should You Be Allowed To Disagree With Your Progressive Colleagues? (Unlocked)

Should You Be Allowed To Disagree With Your Progressive Colleagues?

Win A Copy Of "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills" By Some Jerk

I'm Worried About The Further Siloization Of Mainstream Writing

The Reply All Implosion Shows What A Toxic, Circular-Firing-Squad Mess Media Is Right Now

The Reply All Implosion Shows What A Toxic, Circular-Firing-Squad Mess Media Is Right Now (Unlocked)

The Implicit Association Test Is A Marvel Of Modern Marketing

What Should We Do About Beliefs That Are Widely Held And Highly Reviled?

The Problem With "Just Ignore The Crazies"

Beware The Sand 'N Slot

More Warning Signs In The Culture Of Journalism

It's The Worst Part Of The Worst Winter, So Let's Argue With Judith Butler

"I'm Scared, So I Trust The Authorities" Is Always A Terrible Heuristic

The Case For A Smidgeon Of Earnestness And Optimism

Do We Really Need A Theory Of "Multiracial Whiteness" To Explain Latino Support For Trump?

Yeah But When Our Side Is Violent It's Justified

A Perfect Ending To The Trump Presidency (Updated)

When Your Epistemic Bubble Pops

When Your Epistemic Bubble Pops (Unlocked)