Today, I want to talk about an idea I have been thinking about quite a lot lately: the confusion resulting from the conflation of oppression, i.e. unfair treatment, and repression in a Freudian sense, which includes things like emotional restraint. Previously, I argued that this idea, originating in the…

Today, I’m going to talk about how to end racism again.

Previously, I have explained quite a few times why I believe critical race theory is very unhelpful in the fight against racism.

I have also spent an episode outlining how our understanding of cognitive biases from empirical psychological…

People sometimes ask me, what do you mean by ‘identifying as a woman’? After all, most people say they don’t think about gender much, so they can’t really understand what strongly identifying as a gender is like.

I can’t speak for everyone else, but for me, I guess it’s…

Today, I want to talk about why the culture wars are making us foolish. Basically, it comes down to the fact that culture war politics make many people choose a team based on one or several issues, and they often decide to follow the other positions of that team…

Today, I want to talk about the issue of pronouns, which has, in recent years, gained an unusual amount of prominence in the trans discourse. In fact, there is a view that the issue of pronouns has taken attention away from more bread and butter issues, like housing and…

Today, I’m going to talk about why things like a UBI, better health care, and climate action across the Western world, have had relatively little success, compared to opinion polls which show their policies to be popular in theory. …

In the wake of a disasterous election day across the US for the Democratic Party two weeks ago, there has been deep soul searching as to what went wrong for the Democrats. While there were likely plenty of reasons at play, one reason many people are talking about is the…

You may have noticed that the conversation around trans issues has been plagued with conflict, accusations and anger in recent years. You may have noticed that there is a lot of shouting and name-calling, but not much actually gets resolved. …