Matt Walsh on Dr. Phil hinted at it, but it needs to be specifically articulated. — Why should we be concerned with the gender debate? Because gender is not some throw-away word or concept. It is fundamental to our understanding of humanity, and its elimination as a category would have devastating effects on our psychic development and ability to communicate with each other. I watched an…

Reification of Diluted Identities — I’m trying to imagine what it was like growing up in the middle of the twentieth century. Especially being black in that time period. It must have been exciting and scary. Full of the anxiety that comes with the unknown. “Will things get better? Or will there be a backlash…

How did a tiny tribe of desert nomads become so important to history? — Of all the tribes of people, why is it that a group of pastoral tribal nomads, who were minorities then and minorities now, seem to have such an enduring presence in our world? Because ideas and the details matter. Their ideas have stood the test of time and ended up…

Mapping Out Our Journey Toward Universal Human Equality — This is the first part of a series where I explore different aspects, events, and ingredients necessary for the concept of universal human equality. Not being the normal expectation throughout the majority of human history, I wanted to understand where the concept came from and how it has come…

Connecting With Family, Traditions, and My Ancestors — Click, No Bang After years of failure, this was my chance to walk out of the woods victorious. I had spotted some movement about sixty yards to my right, my eyes locked in, and then I saw him. He was slowly walking down a large pathway that encircled a dilapidated wire fence with…

Reviewing Joseph Henrich’s Book: The WEIRDest People in the World, How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous — It all started with a paper published in 2010 that asks if our ideas about the nature of human psychology are correct. Is there a consistent human psychology across cultures? Seeing as how the population from which we pull our data is largely Western educated undergraduate students, we should expand…

Our social and policy mistakes were not simply honest mistakes, but rooted in a deep, festering cultural wound. — A recent article in The Atlantic has been widely shared and discussed. It asks for amnesty to be afforded to those who made mistakes when in a high-pressure novel situation we look back on as the COVID pandemic. The idea is that nobody knew what to do, and we all…

Separating the art from the artist — What if I find out a Republican owns the orchard my apple came from, and he flies a Trump 2024 flag? Should I stop consuming those apples? I mean the apple is literally going into my body and we are what we eat. Right? …

Politician and lawyer Stacey Abrams recently claimed that “There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks,” and the dominoes have started to fall. …