You Can’t Lose This Argument
The reason it kept checking out isn’t that it’s true. It’s that nothing you could have found would have counted against it.
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Totschlagargument
There is a move in a conversation that doesn’t win the argument but ends it. In American constitutional debate, it has become the default. This is an essay about what that costs — not about guns.
Just Asking Questions: The Fallacy Nobody Commits
The problem is not questions. It is the question with a cause already inside it — a post hoc inference the speaker never performs, so it can never be pinned on them.
Lonely for the Wrong Reason
The manosphere is closer to right about the feeling than its critics admit, and much further from right about the cause than its followers ever check.
The Alpha Male Myth
The ‘alpha male’ is borrowed from a debunked wolf study its own author disowned — and it gets the cause of attraction backwards. Here’s why having genuine passions, not performing dominance, is what actually works.
The Problems That Lose By Default
Water infrastructure has no news cycle. That is the whole problem.
What Feminism Actually Asks of Me
The thing nobody tells you about becoming a feminist as a man is that the day-to-day reality…