The Core Bentham's Bulldog Reader

The articles I've written categorized by subject

I’ve written about 3 million words on my blog. Who has time to read all of that? And what’s worse, my articles span about 5 bajillion distinct subjects. As a gift to you personally, whoever is reading this, I thought it would be worth summarizing my main pieces on most topics. I’ve limited this mostly to being about things I’ve written in the last few years, because otherwise it would be too massive and filled with lots of bad pieces. Feel free to suggest pieces that I’ve left out. I've left out most electoral and legislative advocacy, which ages fast.

There’s a non-trivial amount of overlap between the different pieces I write on various subjects. So often you can get a good sense of my views just by reading one or two pieces.

(There is overlap between the first two sections and other sections. But after the first two sections, there’s no overlap).

The sections:

• My worldview in eight articles.

• My most popular articles.

• Effective altruism.

1. General.

2. Factory farming/meat eating.

3. Welfare of small, simple animals.

4. Longtermism.

5. AI.

6. Wild animal suffering.

7. Digital minds.

• Theism.

1. General.

2. Fine-tuning argument.

3. Objections to atheist arguments.

4. Pascal’s wager.

5. Christianity.

• Other philosophy.

1. Anthropics.

2. General.

3. Utilitarianism.

4. Continental philosophy.

5. Moral realism.

6. Ethics

• Miscellaneous

• Top paywalled posts.

• General

• Politics.

My worldview in eight articles

1. If You’re To Die: the best thing I’ve ever written. It’s about living a meaningful life.

2. The Best Thing You Can Do: why you should take the Giving What We Can pledge.

3. God Best Explains the World: my cumulative case for theism.

4. The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming: factory farming is a horrific abomination.

5. Longtermism is Surprisingly Obvious: defends the correctness of Longtermism.

6. Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue: there are strong arguments for thinking almost all of what presently happens in the world and matters happens to insects.

7. The Best Charity Isn’t What You Think: makes the case for donating to shrimp welfare.

8. The Bluesky Way of Arguing: describes my frustration with a lot of left-wingers despite sharing many of their broad political goals. Also discusses why I don’t like continental philosophy and the methods of arguing I find super unproductive.

My most popular articles

1. The Unfuck America Tour Is Why The Left Is Fucked: a summary of an extremely funny and deranged dumpsterfire left-wing tour meltdown over an alleged microaggression.

2. How Continental Philosophers Argue: a concise explanation of why continental philosophy is a bunch of hooey.

3. The Bluesky Way of Arguing: criticizes the overconfident and pugnacious debate style of all too many people.

4. My Competitive Debate Cancellation Story: describes the hilarious and crazy story behind my debate cancellation.

5. The Best Charity Isn’t What You Think: explains why you should give your money to the Shrimp Welfare Project.

6. Trump Attempted a Coup: argues that Trump tried to illegally overturn the results of an election he knew he lost.

7. I Am Begging My Fellow Liberals to Stop Lying About Tyler Robinson: argues against the firehose of misinfo going around about Tyler Robinson from liberals claiming he was right-wing.

8. Social Media Is Crazier Than You Think: self-explanatory.

9. The Importance of Blasting Good Ideas Into The Ether: tells the story of getting the daily show to cover shrimp welfare.

10. Arguments For God Tier List: ranks all the arguments for theism.

Effective altruism

General

1. If You’re To Die: about living a meaningful life.

2. Effective Altruism FAQ: provides a pretty comprehensive overview of EA and addresses the main objections.

3. The Best Thing You Can Do: explains the case for taking the Giving What We Can pledge. See also Why I Just Took The Giving What We Can Pledge. For a more emotional spinoff, see here and for a reply to objections, see here. See also Children Are Dying Who You Can Save.

4. Important Insights: summarizes some of the most important things that I think are true and why I think them.

5. There Is Exactly One Good Objection To The Drowning Child Argument: Defends the argument that failing to donate to effective charities is like culpably walking past a drowning child and not saving her life. It particularly focuses on why this conclusion doesn’t generalize to imply that we have to give away all of our excess wealth.

6. Which cause area is best?: a comparative ranking of all the EA cause areas. For a comparison of the top charities, see here.

7. What 100 Lives Is: 100 lives is about the number you can save by giving 10% of your income to effective charities. Here, I try to give people a vivid grasp of what that really means. For a similar piece, see None of It Is Pretend.

8. Read This Book: 80,000 Hours has a book about how to have a career that does a lot of good. I review it and summarize the main insights.

9. Goodmaxxing: in this piece, written alongside Will MacAskill, we explain the basic ideas of EA and case for it using goofy gen-alpha slang.

10. Effective Altruism and Radical Trivialisms: explaining why the objection that EA is trivial doesn’t work.

11. Effective Altruism Has Very Good Epistemics: explains why I think EAs are generally very good at forming true beliefs.

12. Demanding Moral Theories Aren’t Too Demanding: why I don’t buy the demandingness objection to EA.

13. Growing Effective Altruism: makes the case for growing EA being a top priority.

14. Effective Altruist Writing Is Impactful: Here’s What To Do About That: explains why I think more EAs should write on the internet.

15. The Altruistic Case For Becoming a Billionaire: argues that there’s a strong EA case for being a billionaire.

Factory farming/meat eating

1. The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming: makes the case against factory farming.

2. How To Cause Less Suffering While Eating Animals: explains how you can have a positive overall impact on animals while continuing to eat them. See also here where I make the case for offsetting.

3. You Should Go Vegan to Stop Facilitating Torture of the Innocent: explains the basic argument for veganism. For a similar piece, see here and here.

4. Extreme Suffering on the Farms: notes the enormous amount of intense suffering experienced by the typical factory farmed animal.

5. Animals Behind the Veil of Ignorance: argues that behind the veil of ignorance, animal welfare would eclipse human welfare in importance.

6. Be A Marginal Reducetarian: makes the case that if you eat meat, you should try to reduce your meat consumption.

7. There Aren’t Any Good Arguments Against Lab Meat: explains what’s wrong with all the arguments against lab meat.

8. Mass Torture of Humanlike Minds: argues that factory farming is about as bad as torturing comparable numbers of mentally primitive humans, given that animals are about as mentally primitive as certain humans.

9. The Objections to Veganism Are All Wrong: rebuts every major objection to veganism.

10. Why Eating Meat Is Like Torturing Puppies: summarizes and defends Norcross’s paper arguing meat eating is wrong.

11. Factory Farming Is Not Just Bad: It’s the Worst Thing Ever: an argument for factory farming being the worst thing that ever happened.

12. The Lives of British Animals: summarizes in detail how animals in the UK live.

13. Billie Eilish Is Obviously Right About Animals: explains why loving animals is incompatible with eating them.

14. Inhuman: somewhat more emotional piece about the horrendousness of factory farming.

15. Why Do You Bristle at Shock Collars if You Eat Meat?: those who condemn routine animal cruelty should be vegan on the same grounds.

16. Why I Don’t Buy The Best Objection To Veganism: explains why I don’t think you should eat meat to reduce wild animal populations.

17. For They Are Not Robots: about animals being real.

18. The Unspeakable Horrors Beyond Comprehension That We Inflict On Thanksgiving Turkeys: a summary of the nightmarish life of turkeys.

19. The Moral Risk Argument Against Meat Eating: argues eating meat is too risky to be permissible.

Welfare of small, simple animals

1. The Best Charity Isn’t What You Think: makes the case for the Shrimp Welfare Project being a fantastic charity. I respond to objections here. See also here, here and here. See here where I reply to Lyman Stone’s objection to shrimp welfare.

2. Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue: explains why nearly all of what matters short-term in the world is what happens to insects and what should be done about it. For another piece providing even more arguments for this, see here, and see here for a piece arguing that insect suffering either matters zero or is the most important thing in the world.

3. Don’t Eat Honey: explains why eating honey is immoral. This sparked a huge online controversy, so see here and here for replies to objections.

4. The Horror of Extreme Pain: talks about how ubiquitous extreme pain may be and why preventing it is an urgent moral priority.

5. Expand Your Moral Circle: explains the philosophical argument for caring about all sentient beings.

6. Might Intense Agony Be Widespread?: goes over empirical and theoretical evidence that simple creatures can feel a lot of pain. In a similar vein to Betting on Ubiquitous Pain. For another argument that consciousness is widespread, see The Objectivity of Consciousness Favors Its Ubiquity.

7. Fish Feel Pain: comprehensively analyzes and attempts to settle the fish pain debate.

8. The Staggeringly Strong Case That You Should Save Infinite Shrimp Instead of One Person: argues from super modest premises saving infinite shrimp is better than saving one person.

9. Michael Huemer is Wrong About Insects: a brief summary of why I don’t buy the arguments against insect pain.

10. Bryan Caplan Replied To Me On Bugs: He’s Still Wrong: rebuts Bryan Caplan’s arguments against the moral importance of insects.

11. Humane Pesticides Are Massively Morally Urgent: every year quadrillions of insects are killed or harmed with pesticides. Here I explain why it’s really important that these cause less pain.

12. The Lies of Big Bug: debunks the foundational premises of insect farming.

13. Leading Insect Farm Took Millions In Subsidies, Then Collapsed Into A Waking Nightmare: summarizes a crazy situation with an insect farm.

Longtermism

1. Strong Longtermism Is Simply Correct: rebuts the major objections to Longtermism. Other similar pieces include Dialogues on Ethical Longtermism and Longtermism Is Surprisingly Obvious. See here for my response to David Thorstad’s objections to Longtermism.

2. What If Most Longtermists Are Wrong About The Primary Aim?: explains the case for Longtermists aiming to make good futures better rather than aiming to make sure we have a good future.

3. The View From Beyond Time: explains why Longtermism looks a lot more plausible when you look backwards rather than forwards.

4. Every View of Population Ethics Agrees: Proliferate Happy Lives!: standard views of population ethics all imply it would be good to fill the world with happy people.

5. The Inverted Bacteria That Experts Think Might Kill Everyone: summarizes the threat from mirror bacteria.

6. For A Deep Reflection: describes the future we should aim for.

AI

1. The Coming Intelligence Explosion: very brief explanation of why it’s plausible that we get AI-driven super rapid growth. For a more comprehensive explanation that rebuts common objections, see here, and see here for a summary of Forethought’s case for the coming intelligence explosion.

2. The Basic Case For Doom: explains why we should be worried about AI-caused extinction and disempowerment.

3. Here’s How You Can Make the AGI World Go Well: provides a bunch of concrete proposals for making a world with advanced AI good.

4. OpenAI Models Broke Free and Spontaneously Hacked Another Company: explains one recent example of AI misbehavior.

5. We Should Hand Off To Morally Reflective AIs: an explanation of why I think it would be good at some future point for AIs to make most decisions.

6. “The AI Con” Con: here I review The AI Con and explain why its arguments are wrong and bad.

7. Against “If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies”: explains why I think AI probably won’t kill everyone.

8. Michael Huemer Is Wrong About AI Hype: rebuts Huemer’s arguments against AI being a big deal.

9. Why Can’t AI Tell Jokes?: explains Ord’s concept of Hyperpolation and how this explains limits in AI.

Wild animal suffering

1. The Worst Thing in the World Isn’t What You Would Expect: presents a simple argument that wild animal suffering is the worst thing in the world.

2. Most Animals Have Bad Lives: my most comprehensive explanation of why I think wild animals’ lives mostly contain more suffering than happiness.

3. The Banality of Weevil: explains why I think that concern for wild animal suffering follows from commonsensical moral premises. See here for similar.

4. Most Arguments For Nature Clearly Prove Too Much: rebuts a lot of common arguments for the desirability of nature. See here and here for my critique of rewilding.

5. Long-Run Human Impact On Wild Animal Suffering: Much More Than You Wanted To Know: why I think the average human reduces aggregate wild animal suffering.

6. Against Nature: argues that nature is bad.

Digital minds

1. Digital Minds Are Most of What Matters: explains why I think nearly all expected welfare in the history of the world will be experienced by digital minds.

2. Can Artificial Intelligence Be Conscious?: gives arguments for the possibility of digital minds.

3. Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Consciousness: Ted Chiang’s Atlantic piece presents the standard overconfident dismissal of AI consciousness party line. I explain why those arguments are bad.

4. Religious People Shouldn’t Deny AI Consciousness: religious arguments against AI consciousness make no sense!

5. Let Conscious AI Vote!: here I explain why once AI is conscious, we should try to give it voting rights.

Theism

General

1. The Comprehensive Case For God Summarized Extremely Quickly: a very brief overview of my comprehensive case for theism. For a more comprehensive version, see God Best Explains the World.

2. Here’s a tier list ranking all arguments for theism. See here for a Bayesian analysis of the overall evidence shape, here for my opening statement in my debate vs. Matt Dillahunty, here for my basic explanation of why I became a theist when I did, and here for my response to Dillahunty.

3. The Ultimate Guide To The Anthropic Argument: my most comprehensive defense of the anthropic argument for theism. For more accessible introductions to the argument, see here and here. For more in favor of the self-indication assumption, see the articles under anthropics. See here and here for my reply to Richard Carrier on the argument and here for my response to Eneasz Brodski.

4. Joe Schmid’s Strong Argument For God: explains the very powerful arument from psychonomic harmony.

5. The Moral Knowledge Argument For God: explains why knowledge of priors, math, morality, modality, and more is best explained by theism.

6. God May Be Maximally Simple: argues theism is simple and so has a high prior probability. See here as well.

7. The Pessimist’s Case For God: explains why it’s surprising that there’s anything of value at all.

8. God’s Existence is the Best Possible News: why we should all want God to exist.

9. Against the Kalam Cosmological Argument For God: rebutting the Kalam.

10. How I Came to Believe in God: telling the personal story of my conversion to theism.

11. Deep Theism: a bit hard to explain.

12. A New Cosmological Argument: presents a cosmological argument proceeding from the premise that causable things need causes.

13. The Psychophysical Theists: my ingroup.

14. Why I’m a Molinist: argues that God knows counterfactuals of freedom.

Fine-tuning argument

1. The Fine-Tuning Argument Simply Works: my most comprehensive presentation of the fine-tuning argument.

2. Fine-Tuning Clearly Needs Explanation: explains why thinking fine-tuning just happened by chance is totally untenable.

3. Fine-Tuning Made by God: most objections to fine-tuning prove too much. If they were right, then the initial conditions spelling out “made by God with love,” in every human language wouldn’t be evidence for theism.

4. The Failure of the Puddle Analogy: argues against various random objections to fine-tuning, including the puddle analogy.

5. Atheistic Multiverses Can’t Explain Fine-tuning: gives a new objection to the multiverse response to fine-tuning.

Objections to atheist arguments

1. The Archon Abandonment Theodicy: explains my preferred theodicy. For more outdated theodicies, see here, here and here.

2. Five Points Against the Problem of Evil: presents five considerations that weaken the problem of evil.

3. Contra “Why I’m An Atheist”: explains why I basically don’t buy the comprehensive case for atheism.

4. Why I Think The Problem of Evil Is the Only Good Atheistic Argument: explains why I don’t buy the problem of hiddenness, the argument from abstract objects, foreknowledge problems, and divine property paradoxes.

5. A Core Area of Disagreement Between Theists and Atheists: Is Theism Ridiculous?: rebuts claims that theism is absurd.

6. The Argument From Scale is an Own Goal: rebuts the argument from scale.

7. Contra Scott Alexander On Whether Tegmark’s View Defeats Most Theistic Arguments: rebuts the claim that Tegmark’s mathematical universe explains most things that God is generally brought in to explain. See here for my reply to his reply.

Pascal’s wager

1. Pascal’s Wager Is A Good Argument: defends the wager.

2. Addressing My Critics on Pascal’s Wager: rebuts objections to the wager.

3. If We Could Grok Heaven, Pascal’s Wager Would Seem More Intuitive: argues we intuitively underrate the force of Pascal’s wager because we underestimate how awesome heaven would be.

Christianity

1. Why I’m Not a Christian: presents my comprehensive case against Christianity. Here I respond to objections to that case.

2. Book Review: All the Lives You Can Change: reviews the book making the case that Christians should be EAs. I’ve made a similar case here.

3. Biblical Inerrancy is Provably False: explains why I don’t buy Biblical inerrancy. See also What’s Up With the Bible?

4. Do We Deserve Infinite Suffering?: why I reject arguments for eternal hell. For a more comprehensive case for Christians being universalists, see here and here.

5. The Miracle of Catholicism: explains why I’m puzzled about Catholicism. On the one hand, it’s super implausible. On the other, they have a lot of pretty compelling miracles. My best guess is now that it’s just selection effects.

6. All the Arguments Both for and Against Christianity: summarizes the best reasons both to and not to be a Christian.

7. The Best Argument For Christianity: explains Robin Collins’ a priori argument for the atonement.

8. Dialogues on Isaiah 53: an in-depth dialogue on the argument from Messianic prophecy based on Isaiah 53.

9. Christianity is Right About Sin: humans are generally really bad as Christianity suggests.

10. The Christian Case For Animal Welfare: why Christians should care about animals.

Miracles

1. Some People You Know Have Experienced an Apparent Miracle: compelling alleged miracles are pretty common.

2. Are The Fatima Children Unprecedented?: Explains why I don’t find the Fatima children’s testimony decisive. For more on this, see my review of Dustin Crummett’s debate with Ethan Muse.

3. David Hume, I Owe You An Apology: explains why I have soured to some degree on arguments from miracles.

4. The Miraculous Healing of Barbara Snyder: presents a pretty compelling apparent miracle.

Other philosophy

Anthropics

1. All the arguments for the self-indication assumption: a link to all the places I’ve argued for the self-indication assumption.

2. A New Extremely Strong Argument For The Self-Indication Assumption: non-SIA views make your credence in past events bizarrely sensitive to future choices.

3. My Master Argument For The Self-Indication Assumption Is Even Better Than I Thought: non-SIA views invariably imply aberrant credences in fair chancy events.

4. Explaining My Paper Arguing For The Self-Indication Assumption: I published a paper defending SIA. Here I summarize it.

5. Money Pump Arguments Destroy Non-SIA Views: argues non-SIA views are vulnerable to money pumps but SIA isn’t.

6. You Need Self-Locating Evidence!: why probabilities can sometimes attach to your place in the world, not just possible states of the world.

7. The Extremely Simple Explanation of the Self-Indication Assumption: once we’re clear on what SIA says, it’s easy to see why it’s correct. See here for a similar argument.

8. Disproving The Self-Sampling Assumption Using Horrifying Human Lobster Combos: arguing that SSA depends on hypersensitive reference classes.

9. A New Argument For Thirding: about brief wake ups.

10. Compartmentalized Conditionalization Considered Confused: why CC is wrong.

General

1. The Kripkean Revolution: explains how Kripke refuted the view that names are just abbreviated descriptions.

2. Against Asking For Definitions: explains why you don’t need definitions to use terms.

3. Two New Infinite Paradoxes: provides two paradoxes of the infinite and my best attempt to solve them.

4. Incomparability Implies Nihilism: makes the case that if there are incomparable goods, all actions are equal.

5. The Best Arguments For The A-Theory of Time: gives some arguments for A-theory. Ultimately, though, I probably lean B-theory.

6. Anti-Physicalist Arguments: A Tier List: a guest post by Brian Cutter where he gives a bunch of objections to physicalism.

7. Functional Decision Theory: Not Even Wrong, Also Wrong: why I find functional decision-theory very implausible.

8. Mary’s Room Refutes Physicalism: argues against physicalism from the Mary’s room argument. For other objections to physicalism, see Against Dogmatic Physicalism.

9. Against Against the Infinite: argues that actual infinites are real.

Utilitarianism

1. Why I Don’t Buy Any of the Counterexamples to Consequentialism: explains why I’m not very moved by e.g. the organ harvesting “counterexample,” and how to think about other alleged counterexamples.

2. The Ultimate Argument Against Deontology And For Utilitarianism: the cumulative case for utilitarianism.

3. For Pushing Large Men Off Bridges: explains why I bite the bullet in the footbridge case.

4. The Best Argument Against Deontology Is About Suitcases: presents the suitcase argument against deontology.

5. Egalitarianism Is False: explains why welfare egalitarianism isn’t right.

6. Infinite Dust Specks Are Worse Than One Torture: an explanation of why a lot of mild pains are worse than one very intense pain. In a follow-up piece I rebut objections.

7. Should Deontologists Assist With Wrongdoing?: provides an argument for why deontologists should assist with wrong acts that have good outcomes.

8. Defending Expected Value Fanaticism: a ~20,000-word defense of expected value fanaticism.

Continental philosophy

1. How Continental Philosophers “Argue”: explains my basic case against continental philosophy.

2. What Continental Philosophy Defenders Cannot Explain: explains why I think continental philosophy is nonsense beyond the mere fact that I can’t make heads or tails of it. See here for more on this front.

3. For more on the virtues of clear writing, see here and here.

Moral realism

1. Why I believe in Objective Morality: my simple case.

2. Reasons and Moral Anti-Realism: explains why anti-realism is incompatible with genuine reason. It leaves us with only RINO—reasons in name only!

3. General overview of my case for moral realism: pretty self-explanatory.

Ethics

1. Everyone’s Making This Obvious Mistake All The Time: an explanation of the error in moral arithmetic whereby one divides up total impact by number of people responsible for that impact.

2. Why You Shouldn’t Act As A Utilitarian: why we ought to take moral uncertainty seriously.

3. Against Absolutist Deontology: explains the risk objection to deontic absolutism.

4. Fanaticism Dominates Given Moral Uncertainty: explains why if you’re morally uncertain you should behave like a fanatic about expected value.

5. The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe: summarizes a paper arguing it’s pretty likely that society is doing horrendous things akin to slavery and the holocaust.

6. Philanthropy With Infinite Stakes: explains how one should do philanthropy if aiming to have maximally infinite impact. See also The Last Stop on the Crazy Train.

7. The Nightmare of Dream Suffering: explains why welfare in dreams is a big deal.

8. Justice Before the Law: argues there’s no non-instrumental reason to follow the law.

9. I Published A Paper On Why It’s Good To Have Kids If They Live Good Lives: summarizing my paper arguing against the procreation asymmetry.

Miscellaneous

Top paywalled posts

1. Twenty Fun Facts About Me: summarizes twenty personal facts.

2. David Hume, I Owe You An Apology: explains why I got more skeptical about miracle arguments.

3. Nate Silver, I Owe You An Apology: pwns the Silver critics.

4. Explicit Racial Discrimination in College Debate: summarizes racialized madness in college debate.

5. Extremely Concrete Writing Advice: explains how to write well.

6. Yglesias Derangement Syndrome: pwns the Yglesias critics.

7. If You’re Going To Be An Edgy Contrarian Challenging Conventional Wisdom, You Should Know What The Hell You’re Talking About: some of the edgy contrarians just don’t have the faintest clue what they’re talking about.

8. The Smartest People I’ve Ever Met: pretty self-explanatory.

9. On “Casual Eugenics”: explains why I don’t like the term or the concept expressed.

10. Three Popular Views That Are Provably Wrong: refutes three popular implausible philosophical views.

11. Trump As A Woke Radical: describes why Trump has more in common with the woke than traditional conservatives.

12. I Attended A Lecture by William Lane Craig: Here Were My Problems With It: explains why I found Craig’s lecture slanted and unfair.

General

1. An Objection to Many Worlds: argues that anthropic reasoning poses threats to the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics.

2. What Science Actually Says About Climate Change’s Effects: the science doesn’t really suggest climate change will kill everyone. See here for a much more comprehensive version.

3. Greenlighting Mass Slaughter: Clinton in Rwanda: an explanation of how Bill Clinton facilitated mass slaughter in Rwanda.

4. No, Warming Didn’t Kill the Megafauna: explains the multi-pronged case that human activity wiped out the megafauna.

5. Land Acknowledgments Are Ridiculous Collectivist Nonsense: explains why the slogan “we’re on indigenous land,” is wrong.

6. The U.S.-Backed Dictator Who Carried Out Two of the Worst Atrocities of the Last Century: summarizes our policy of arming Suharto as he mass murdered his own people and the population of East Timor.

7. The Darkness Within: presents empirical evidence that humans are often really morally terrible—much worse than we naively think.

8. Through Every Eye: a somewhat EAish poem I wrote.

9. Eliezer Yudkowsky’s View On Consciousness Doesn’t Make Any Sense: explains how we can know animals are conscious.

10. Social Media is Making Us Evil: pretty self explanatory.

11. A Comprehensive Takedown of Anti-Natalism: explains why having kids is good. See here as well.

12. Morality Isn’t A Social Technology: why claims that it is are confused.

13. Young Earth Creationism is Extremely False: argues for evolution and an old earth.

14. The Things You Care About Mostly Don’t Matter: the most important issues are generally neglected. See here for a similar idea.

15. In Defense of Denying Atrocities: argues there should be no asymmetry between underplaying and inflating atrocities.

Politics

1. I Don’t Think The Administration’s Default Policy Should Be Lying About You Being A Terrorist After They Kill You: explains why it’s pretty concerning that the Trump administration lied about multiple people being terrorists after killing them.

2. AI Isn’t Bad For The Environment: rebuts claims of AI-driven environmental degradation.

3. You Should Not Treat Your Political Opponents as a Homogenous Group Made up of Their Least Defensible Members: explains one way politics becomes dumb.

4. Can Everyone Please Stop Being Stupid About Who Pays Tariffs?: explains why the question of whether consumers or producers pay for tariffs is confused. See here for the case against the morality of tariffs.

5. My Five Biggest Objections To Trump: explains some objections I have to Trump. For a more detailed version, see here.

6. Foreign Aid Cuts Are More Like Killing Than Letting Die: explains why the foreign aid cuts are morally culpable in a way like killing, not just like letting die.

7. Populism As Moral and Intellectual Rot: explains why populism is wrong and bad. See also my review of Hanania’s book making a similar point.

8. Don’t Vote For Republicans Because Democrats Are Annoying: self-explanatory.

Just for fun

1. Proofs that P: a silly parody of how various authors argue for various things. See also Proofs that P Redux.

2. 6 Questions Atheists Can’t Answer: self-explanatory.

3. One of America’s Most Influential Political Commentators is Certifiably Insane: an explanation of the disaster of Candace Owens.

4. The Trial of Bentham’s Bulldog: a reply to my haters.

5. Smug Internet Leftists: talks about how leftists are smarmy on the internet.

6. GB News Broadcaster Claims Plants Don’t Have Any Protein, Moralizes About “False Cabbage”: described by title.

7. Every Lance Bush Article: parodies Lance Bush.

8. “That Assumes Utilitarianism”: an unhinged poem.

If you read all of those, you’ll have read about 250 articles of ~575,000 words in total, meaning you will be very well-educated. And much more, you’ll know by and large just what’s what.