The Heterodox Academy is purely a right-wing operation. Period. It has no redeeming cultural value and exists strictly to propagate right-wing talking points. It rehashes all the same debunked arguments that Koch-funded and Koch-adjacent nonprofits and media outlets have been making for decades. It has reframed “intellectual diversity” as “heterodoxy”…

The veneer of thoughtfulness and intellectualism is gone. These people are anti-science. Let’s check in on what these folks have been up to lately. Jordan Peterson: Currently spewing antivax disinformation on social media. Eric R. Weinstein: Currently spewing COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media, when not touting his geometric unity…

It’s unfortunate when Satanists adopt authoritarian politics. But is is also common. Many Satanic groups have documented histories of engaging in right-wing apologia, of tolerating or platforming neo-nazi and white nationalist perspectives and voices, and whitewashing conformity of thought and uncritical bootlicking under the pretense of rebellion and free thought. …

Bitcoin has the appearance of a Libertarian tax avoidance scheme that compounds the myriad problems associated with sequestering wealth away from public ownership by also externalizing its environmental costs. Decentralized digital currency that does neither of these things is possible, but Bitcoin is not it. …

Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti hosted Bret Weinstein, of intellectual dark web fame, in an absolute farce of journalism and conspiracism. This disgraceful, softball session of an interview is hosted at The Hill’s YouTube channel, here: To set the scene, so-called journalists, Ball and Enjeti, play a clip featuring…

Social media is an irredeemable dumpster fire of disinformation. We knew this before The Social Dilemma aired on Netflix, but now it is folly to even pretend to be safe from algorithms that shunt us into echo chambers. And beyond social media, algorithmic news aggregators and search results are no…

Bret Weinstein was called out on social media for using “woke” as a pejorative. Which, so that we are clear, any white person who uses this word this way is, without a doubt, engaging in a racist action. Given that an action is either racist or antiracist, when a white…

Before we get into the list of why cancel culture is good, let’s first accurately convey what it is. For that, we turn to the Wikipedia entry on cancel culture, specifically the opening section that describes it: Reason One: It’s a Boycott Cancel culture is just a boycott. Fundamentally, that’s…

The IDW trades in right-wing rhetoric. It masks this behind a veneer of academic intellectualism and liberalism, never minding that several of its members are disgraced academics or explicitly anti-intellectual, anti-academia, or full-on conspiracy theorists, but it is a right-wing movement that draws from far-right distortions of discourse in an…