Longshott's Blog

The best way to get fascism in society is to convince people that something equivalent to fascism is the opposite of fascism, thus leading t...

Psychologist Steven Pinker often says that we believe in God because our brain is playing a trick on us—we’ve evolved for survival, not for ...

Fukuyama postulated that history would end in liberal democracy since it satisfied our material and thymotic desires. But beyond our need fo...

James Madison understood that freedom is well-served by pluralism, particularly pluralism in religion since it is the realm of life that add...

Both seem to follow a seven-step pattern: 1. SCARY PROBLEM causes panic among the population (9/11, COVID-19 outbreak) 2. General feeling ...

One of the scourges of our time is “if not A then B” thinking. It might also be named the “false binary” fallacy or, in some senses, the “la...

The spread of wokism to all corners of society, with a concomitant tendency to restrict speech, fire heretics, and establish orthodoxy, is c...