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  • Facing the Future

    We need to stand together to hold accountable both this incoming government, as well as the current government for its remaining time in power. We must do so from a place of love. We must evince humanity and peace. There are pressing issues that must be confronted. These administrations must be convinced that it is…

  • Fascism, How Bad Could it Be?

    Americans, even those on the left, should be taking Donald Trump’s fascist tendencies much more seriously. Recently, Trump has made comments about using the military against the “enemy from within”. Though his right wing allies insist he is talking about foreign drug traffickers, marauders, and lunatics, some members of the media have, logically, insisted on…

  • Nordhaus, Meet Socialism

    William D. Nordhaus mythologizes our struggles against climate change as a battle against a colossus. His Nobel prize-winning work comes complete with an image of Francisco de Goya’s El Coloso, a painting of a giant, half mist-obscured guy with fist raised. Humanity’s tendency to distribute vast sums of money, ultimately, finite resources, to non-welfare sources…

  • Amorality in the Vance Family

    JD Vance explained in a chat with Tucker Carlson that people who don’t have children are not likely to make benevolent decisions regarding the future of our nation, because they “don’t really have a direct stake in it.” He seems to think the only issue with his commentary is his use of sarcasm. His wife,…

  • Curated Truths About SCOTUS Reform

    Merrill Matthews opined in The Hill that Americans cannot have a more just Supreme Court because poor Venezuelans are subject to dictatorship. How does he make such a leap of logic? He points out similarities between calls for Supreme Court reform in the US and those made in Venezuela, leading to their version of the…

  • PragerU on Climate Change

    One of PragerU’s most egregious errors regarding climate science is found in an animated video about a young student named Ania who learns that burning coal is the key to self-actualization. When Ania talks about her climate fears with her family,  “They challenge her with some thought-provoking questions. They encourage her to consider how the…

  • Ben Shapiro on Climate Change

    Ben Shapiro has a frustrating mix of hypocritical, ill-informed, and poorly reasoned opinions about the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change. Fortunately, he is not absurd enough to deny that climate change is real and is being caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases, so he is perhaps not beyond the point of redeeming himself…

  • Insufficient Lies

    #1 Trump has told many lies, but there are times when his lies are not enough. Enough to get his base to believe them like they believe everything he says, sure, but still not enough to convince them of any virtue, unless they are actually just nodding away inanely at his apparent charisma.  One such…

  • 119th Congress

    The 119th Congress should focus on the right to a healthy environment. Other issues do not matter if humanity gets this issue wrong. In order to make legislative progress with this issue, people must be convinced not only of the verity of the claims of climate scientists, but also of the immorality of climate change…

  • The Capitalist

    The concept of ownership is abstract. I do not actually own the shirt I am wearing.  I  purchased it, it has only ever been worn by me, and a person who found it would likely return it to me if they knew it belonged to me. But it’s not enchanted. It’s not imbued with my…

  • The Gift of Automation

    The moderate left’s manifest approach to the issue of automation is absurd. Technology has been developed which allows for humanity to produce the things it wants and needs without the demand for as much labor. Artificial intelligence is the latest, greatest chapter in this narrative, with the potential to affect it in ways more significant…

  • Of Rats and Men

    Donald Trump has threatened to hunt me down like a rat. I do not think it is necessarily wise to allow a minority of private citizens to own nearly all of the resources humans depend upon for survival. Their ownership of said resources decreases individuals’ capacity to be self-reliant. They are then free to charge…

  • Better Be Certain

    For the people who are convinced by the half-truths of Praeger U or other climate deniers, for those so attached to a particular side of a political aisle that they have denied the findings of climate science out of habit of disagreeing, Denial of the impact of human activity on the climate has tremendous moral…

  • Bezos Blasts Off for Our Benefit

    Barack Obama and Jeff Bezos recently shared a difference of opinion about how humans should be directing their productive energy. Obama echoed the sentiments of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 poem “Whitey on the Moon,” saying “I would rather us invest in taking care of this planet here.” Bezos, on the other hand, offered the take that…

  • If You’re a Wealthy Net Polluter, You’re Not Cool

    Moguls, ballers, fat cats, tycoons, and high-rollers who can’t keep a clean greenhouse gas footprint are just not cool anymore. Our climate crisis means that lives are being lost and the very existence of our species is at stake. Even if we can survive the disastrous conditions our species has wrought, immense suffering is unavoidable…

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