When I started this blog, I was in the midst of an ideological transition from the American liberalism of my childhood and adolescence to a more traditionalist outlook. Many of my core political ...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/a-wandering-learner/
Last Tuesday’s contests moved the Republican Party closer to deciding on its nominee, with Donald Trump winning four of five states, including the winner-take-all state of Florida and its 99 de...
This is a map of the 2016 Republican presidential primary results by county as they currently stand between the 3 biggest contenders. I’ll offer some analysis this weekend, including results...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/on-the-eve-of-winner-take-all/
Via Flowing Data, here are a set of world, regional, and country maps made of beeswax by Chinese artist Ren Ri by manipulating the movement of the hive’s queen, thus directing the hive’s work...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/a-beekeepers-maps-of-the-world/
Nick Land recently pointed to Robin Hanson’s 1998 essay, The Great Filter, which looks at possible explanations to Fermi’s Paradox, by looking at critical steps necessary to galactic coloniza...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/the-great-filter/
Over the course of the past year, I’ve silently admired the emergence of a community of blogs influenced by the writings of Mencius Moldbug who call themselves neoreactionaries. It’s genera...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/qualified-reservations/
Last year, NASA posted a new high resolution map of the lights present across the world at night using the Suomi NPP satellite, which was launched in 2009. While the overall appearance of the map...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/night-lights/
Recently, the OneZoom website, run by James Rosindell and Luke Harmon at Imperial College London, released an illustration of the ancestral tree of all tetrapods–that is, all birds, reptiles, m...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/the-onezoom-tree-of-life/
Just as I stopped blogging with a discussion of how fertility and proselytism shape the ideological landscape with a Bloggingheads discussion as its centerpiece, I’m returning with another Blog...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/two-liberals-discuss-fertility/
At the end of May this year, Bloggingheads.tv hosted an hour-long discussion between Amanda Marcotte, an atheistic feminist, and Michael Brendan Dougherty, a traditionalist Catholic, which covere...
https://reluctantapostate.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/ideological-competition/