Sunday, December 07, 2025

Political lawfare against and by Trump

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  By Mathew Goldstein Here we have lawyer Andrew McCarthy , a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York  making a...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Massimo Pigliucco on philosophy as a way of life

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  By Mathew Goldstein Here are correct (IMO) answers to the ten most consequential philosophical questions, as identified by AI assistant Cl...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

A sensible criticism of trans activism

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  Mathew Goldstein Jamie Paul is Managing Editor at Queer Majority , Contributing Editor at Bi.org , and a critic of trans activism as it ha...
Sunday, November 02, 2025

The problem of activists promoting illiberalism

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  By Mathew Goldstein   A lengthy but still worthwhile commentary from  Helen Pluckrose on the problem of illiberalism . She discusses the t...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Commentary worth reading

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  By Mathew Goldstein There are good secularist commentators on some topics of interest who are worth reading, listening to, or watching. I ...
Sunday, September 07, 2025

Life underground, meet the intraterrestrials

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 By Mathew Goldstein Karen Lloyd is an Associate Professor, University of Tennessee in the Department of Microbiology.    Yet her recent b...
Friday, August 29, 2025

More on transgender transitioning of minors

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  By Mathew Goldstein Too often a policy topic becomes politically polarized. There are sometimes activists representing only two sides. Is ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The comfortable, unanimous certainty of a pleasing fiction

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By a lazy Mathew Goldstein asking  DeepSeek “Write chapter 5 of Gulliver's Travels Part III to satirize the effect of DEI on science tod...