Two questions: Who hired Jason Arday? Who signed the public letter of support for him when allegations of plagiarism and fabrication began to emerge? Grok: “The members of the Board of Electors (the independent nine-member appointment/hiring panel) that selected Jason Arday as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge in 2022–2023 were: […]

Before A.I., pretty much every new information tool was feared and opposed as an enemy of human cognitive advance. Television (1985): “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” [1] Calculators: This 1986 protest by teachers against the use of calculators. Kids are “addicted” to them,

In 1926, there were about 20,000 millionaires in the USA (measured in 1926 dollars). Currently, the USA has about 500,000 people with a net worth of $18 million or more (measured in 2026 dollars).Due to inflation, $1 million in 1926 dollars is about the same as $18 million in 2026 dollars. Hence, the USA has

“That was Stephen Hicks’s warning to students at Galt’s Gulch 2026, our annual student conference held this summer in San Diego. A Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society, Hicks has spent decades studying how political language gets weaponized—most notably in his book Nietzsche and the Nazis. At the conference, he walked students through the actual

​My talk on rhetoric and intellectual self-defense, at the 2026 Galt’s Gulch conference in San Diego: Related: The full audiobook of my Nietzsche and the Nazis:

We will know that the reparations debate is morally serious when this question is a part of the mix: How much does Ghana owe the USA? Why? “The Ashanti Empire (1701–1901) in modern-day Ghana was a prominent participant in the slave trade. Enslavement was primarily fueled by warfare, where the empire acquired captives from rival

If one wants a democracy, then citizens must have a right to petition and attempt to influence the government that is making laws for them. This includes individuals, unions (which also spend hundreds of millions on lobbying), religious groups (ditto), and business corporations. Excluding some individuals or groups of individuals makes them second- or third-class