Heterodox Academy’s big payday
Everybody knows academia has severe political bias issues. Some people have been trying to do something about it for decades. The main academic organization that has been talking up the…
Sometimes you should speak up with an unpopular view
Every year I try to read a set number of books (30 this year). I've been decreasing the number over the years because blogs and academic articles have become so…
On the limits of free speech
Are you in favor of free speech? Most readers and most people in general will say yes, and many even consider themselves free speech absolutists. If asked why, they might…
In Sweden, talking about race and intelligence will get you a fine
I have somehow not heard of this case, but there's an ongoing case in Sweden where a 80-ish year old man, Bertil Malmberg, talked about the intelligence of nations, specifically…
Substack vs. Magazines: growth
Substack is doing well. They have successfully avoided being woke censors so far, even avoided COVID censorship while everybody else was toeing the party line. Back in January, they published…
Big Tech censors the Buffalo shooter’s manifesto
Once again, Big Tech are censoring a manifesto written by a terrorist, in this case, the Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron. It used to be on Google Drive, but was deleted.…
Tech solution to tech totalitarianism
This has been suggested many times, but if you don't want to read the 4000 words version that Moldbug has, here's a 255 words TL;DR. What you want is a…
Substack – a revival of blogging culture / blogs to read in 2020
In the last year or so, there has been a notable growth in people using Substack. This platform is essentially a platform for subscription blogs, where one can opt-in to…
Twitter intensifies their censorship: amren.com blacklisted
Twitter has generally been somewhat less censorious than other platforms, my impression. However, perhaps emboldened by the Victory of 2020, they apparently have implemented a domain block for amren.com. It…
Noam Chomsky’s famous free speech quote
Noam Chomsky has been a pretty consistent far left defender of free speech. He even has a book that advocates the media are biased -- towards the right! Well, sort…