Author: Vikram Bath

If you want to convey something as being true when you actually don’t have any idea, don’t say “I am certain that…” Just say what you have to say as if it were truth. That seems to be the lesson… Continue Reading →

There is a question as to whether inequality matters or not. We’re not dealing with that here. Let’s go ahead and assume for the purposes of this post that it does, action is justified, and we are in charge of… Continue Reading →

As an academic, I worked where affirmative action does most of its work: higher ed. Each semester, I would get an e-mail from administration asking how one or two students were doing in my class. Peculiarly (I thought), they always… Continue Reading →

For whatever reason, this has not been shared on any of the blogs I frequent despite it being instructive on the future of the surveillance state. The Wall Street Journal notes the gobsmacking ineffectiveness of our efforts to stop terrorism:… Continue Reading →

Patrick is almost exactly wrong about The-Government-Has-Been-Collecting-Information-On-All-Our-Phone-Calls-gate: Look, people, you don’t want this stuff going on any more? Look up your Congressional representatives’ voting records and act accordingly. Your Facebook memes are useless. Actually, your Facebook memes are probably the… Continue Reading →

Will Truman writes about one of the latest twists in the security-obsessed United States: the push to lower lower legal blood alcohol limits. Will’s claim that we are unable to accept even minimal amounts of risk seems obvious to me,… Continue Reading →

Last weekend, my Facebook feed depicted a synchronized outpouring of appreciation for mothers on Mother’s Day. These stood out though: Awww. This is worth inspecting, and not just because it speaks to the increasing use of mobile devices to post… Continue Reading →