The Right Geek

Or: Dr. Seuss and the Hygiene Hypothesis. I know I'm late to the party when it comes to commenting upon the Dr. Seuss brouhaha. Forgive ...

This was a free-form stream with a couple of my YouTube bros. And yes, I'm pretty sure the tags below don't quite cover everything...

Critical Theory teaches its adherents how not to understand texts, art, or speech like neurotypical human beings. Under the influence of it...

When I was in college back at the tail-end of the 90's, I took a class on the earliest days of cinema, which covered everything from the...

Strong majorities agree that our police departments should be reformed -- that there should be more accountability when officers behave badl...

The Purity Spiral is a BBC Radio program that covers what readers of this blog will surely recognize: social justice activists' using w...

In both of the videos below, I discuss the subject of heroes/role models. "Girls Need Female Role Models" and Other Bromides ,...

Apologies for the perfunctory posts this past week. My paternal grandmother died (peacefully and at home, fortunately) on November 9, and th...

Remy is a national treasure.

I really, really don't want to live in the nightmare hellscape the wokescolds seem determined to create. How can anyone possibly want ...

Hello, everyone! I'm back -- sort of. Today's post will be relatively brief because I'm down with the infamous Con Crud, but I...

You are "American" in a legal sense if you were born here. You are also "American" in a legal sense if you've moved...

(The Black Ariel Edition) I don't care about Black Ariel. I'm not saying this to virtue signal. I actually do. not. care. who p...

When it comes to fiction, I have a type. (Actually, I have two types, but the second is not relevant to the thrust of this post.) The ty...

Originally published in 2014. In my circles, the word "literary" is often thrown around as a pejorative -- and given the develop...

Areo Magazine , a liberal humanist publication helmed by Helen Pluckrose (of the Sokal Squared hoax ), Iona Italia, and Gauri Hopkins, is on...

A Civics Lesson Quick question: In the late 1780's, when the US Constitution was written and ratified after lengthy argument, which s...

People on the right can be hostile and violent. So can people on the left. But here's the difference as I experience it: When a crazy Tr...

The return of my podcast went well -- audio issues aside. If you were unable to watch the stream live (I know I was up against some big chan...