Monthly Archives: July 2020

It’s Time To Abolish Single-Family Zoning

It’s Time To Abolish Single-Family Zoning The suburbs depend on federal subsidies. Is that conservative? […] In fact, the conservative thing for suburban leaders to do here is to not wait for the federal government to tempt us with more handouts, but to go ahead and show those progressives running the big cities that we […]

War over being nice

War over being nice “Most people don’t have the skills to both express their feelings of frustration and anger, and make sure social harmony is maintained at the same time. In this case, do they err on the side of maintaining social harmony at the cost of their own needs? Or do they get their […]

Wait, what? Sense-making & sense-breaking in modern art

Wait, what? Sense-making & sense-breaking in modern art “If we take the predictive processing model as our most-accurate-yet description of how cognition works, we gain insight into how a piece of art or literary text (for example) interacts with our sensory and analytical systems. We gain a vocabulary for talking about what a “schema,” or […]