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July 2025

The Case Against Social Media is Weaker Than You Think
The evidence that social media broke America is surprisingly weak. So why are so many people convinced it did?
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Dan Williams
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Thinking Beyond the Misinformation Wars
An in-depth conversation with Yascha Mounk about the problems with 'misinformation' discourse, why people distrust institutions, and much more.
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Dan Williams
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The Standpoint of the Oppressed Doesn't Lead to Truth
If you care about the oppressed, you should care about data, science, and rational thought, not misguided "radical" epistemologies.
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Dan Williams
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June 2025

May 2025

Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
By celebrating "common sense" over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge…
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Criticising misinformation research doesn't make you a Trump supporter
It's frustrating that this even needs to be said.
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On becoming less left-wing (Part 2)
Learning about political psychology and epistemology made me more sceptical of left-wing politics (and all politics).
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April 2025

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