Noah Carl

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week: aporiamagazine.com/p/round-up-con…

Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

"For in Terminator, humans fight back against their annihilation. In our world, we may not even resist. Instead, we might joyfully participate in our own obsolescence—victims not of malicious machines, but of excessive kindness and empathy." aporiamagazine.com/p/counterfeit-…

"Immigrants, minorities, and people of mixed descent assumed central symbolic roles within the new regime. Their very existence was cast as a living refutation of traditional or nationalist narratives." aporiamagazine.com/p/woke-as-mana…

"Politics is not a competition between abstract principles. Instead, most political discourse seeks to obscure the question of who rules, and on whose behalf. Even political language about peace, justice or equality routinely masks the struggle for power." aporiamagazine.com/p/woke-as-mana…

What explains the sudden outrage over the bombing of a church in Gaza? In the very first month of the war, Israel bombed the Church of Saint Porphyrius, which was built by Crusaders in the 12th century. They then bombed it again in July of 2024.

"Capitalism, especially in its globalist form, encourages the ceaseless movement of goods, capital and people. The colorful landscape of local tradition is lost to the bland tyranny of the universal." aporiamagazine.com/p/conservatism…

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week: aporiamagazine.com/p/round-up-has…

"Diversity is a lie. And ultimately it promotes the only widespread form of racism in the West: Anti-white racism." aporiamagazine.com/p/diversity-is…

Aporia links here are always extremely throttled. If you haven't heard about it, I strongly recommend both the magazine and the podcast. It's my current favorite podcast.

Noah is joined by Davide Piffer to discuss his research on the genetic basis of group differences. aporiamagazine.com/p/podcast-comp…

“Muslims are about as far to the right as white conservatives when it comes to gender, LGBT issues, public morality and criminal punishment…white liberals are a much greater threat to traditional values than are Muslims” aporiamagazine.com/p/how-do-musli…

"The downsides of giving up all this space to cars aren’t just aesthetic. Cities are less compact and more congested. Less land is available for housing. And most significantly for conservatives, communities are less cohesive." aporiamagazine.com/p/why-conserva…

"Countries that achieve economic development do not begin with mass democracy. They end with it." aporiamagazine.com/p/mass-democra…

"The evidence shows that introducing mass democracy into poor and fragile countries does not create prosperity. In fact, it often prevents it." aporiamagazine.com/p/mass-democra…