Critical thinking

Conspiracy Culture Catches the Car

What happens now that the conspiracy theorists have raided the safe but found it empty?

May 23 •

Is It Ever OK to Mock People's Appearance? (Even If They're Bad?)

Navigating the balance between comedy and bullying

May 16 •

No, You Can't Run a Government Like a Company

Running the Twitter playbook on the American government isn't just a disaster because Musk is bad at it. It would still be a disaster if he wasn't.

Mar 7 •

We Need to Talk About Christopher Rufo

Why does the media continue to indulge a proud and admitted professional liar?

Feb 28 •

I Am Once Again Begging the Left Not to Get Baited Into Conspiracy Thinking

It's all deliberate and we need to keep a cooler head

Jan 10 •

Civil War MAGA: Why They're Fighting

Dumber than you know, as racist as you'd expect

Jan 3 •

Real Time True Crime: The Unsatisfying and Often Damaging Outcomes of Internet Sleuthing

We do this every single time and it's never what we expect

Dec 20, 2024 •

No, They'll Never Believe in Climate Change: How Science Becomes Political

From climatology to vaccines, once science becomes Us Versus Them it's impossible to treat it objectively.

Oct 11, 2024 •

The Censorship Grievance Industrial Complex: Part 2 - The War on Truth

Free speech is important. The right wants you to believe education is its enemy. Don't believe their lies.

Oct 4, 2024 •

How to Engineer a Moral Panic For Fun and Profit

The Republicans' insane anti-Haitian terror campaign is a dangerous new low that brings to question their deeper motives

Sep 20, 2024 •

Context Matters: How the Far Right Weaponizes Poor Media Literacy

Propagandists rely on people missing the bigger picture to smuggle insidious ideas into the mainstream

Sep 13, 2024 •

The Ailing Health of the Substack Health Community

Why is it so hard to create a popular health newsletter that doesn't reject health science?

Jun 28, 2024 •

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