Grandstanding gets likes. Bridge-building gets results. — Today’s political discourse is rife with bad incentives. If you want to grow your online presence, likes and retweets come most easily from radical declarations of partisan views. On the left, this means faulting conservatives for everything in society taken to be bad or oppressive. On the right, this means…

In praise of a moral framework that is clear, easy to apply, and gives us the cost-benefit tools to properly analyze key social tradeoffs — Pandemics, we have discovered, bring an immediate and urgent focus to moral questions we thought we would have our whole lives to answer. …

Note: This post is written from the perspective of effective altruism: working to make the greatest positive impact in the world by using evidence and reason. For an introduction to the subject, visit effectivealtruism.org. As a movement, we should focus primarily on animal protection arguments, utilizing arguments based on the…

Note: This post is written from the perspective of effective altruism: working to make the greatest positive impact in the world by using evidence and reason. For an introduction to the subject, visit effectivealtruism.org. In the 1800s, the American public saw vegetarianism as a strange, puritanical lifestyle. Sylvester Graham and…