I enjoyed listening to Stepehn Dubner’s Freakonomics interview with Katherine Milkman; in it they talk about “temptation bundling,” a term that Milkman and her …

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I enjoyed reading Meredith Patterson’s recent essay “When Nerds Collide: My Intersectionality Will Have Weirdoes Or It Will Be Bullshit.” While reading it I …

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I think one of the reasons for my discomfort with many of the arguments I see online (especially in the Twitter context, like the #stopwadhwa2015 …

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Privilege is often understood by way of metaphor. Like any tool, a given metaphor is apt for some tasks more so than others. Even so …

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In watching the twitter storm about #stopwadhwa2015 I’m struck by two things, but first, some context—which as we will see, is problematic in …

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The notion of privilege, an unearned advantage relative to and perhaps at the expense of others, first arose in the context of class and racism …

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A great irony with the notion of meritocracy is that it is now used in a way contrary to its original, critical, intention.

In an …

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There’s been a lot of press about the forthcoming Arbitration Committee decision on the conduct of editors on the GamerGate article. For instance, today …

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Contemporary discussions often make use of terms and concepts divorced from their origins. When I investigate, I’m sometimes delighted to find trenchant essays whose …

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Popular discussions often make use of terms and concepts divorced from their origins. When I investigate, I’m sometimes delighted to find trenchant essays whose …

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