Society

Autistic art depicting the natural diversity of human minds

Is everybody neurodivergent?

by Ariel Pontes
August 3, 2025August 3, 2025

The pros and cons of embracing labels

🎙️Is nonverbal consent ever enough?

by Ariel Pontes
June 25, 2023June 25, 2023

A dialogue with Kitty

Richard Dawkins sitting on a chair with a bookshelf in the background.

Who decides what’s transphobic?

by Ariel Pontes
April 24, 2021April 26, 2021

How free speech and open dialogue can help minorities

Ten values we can all live by

by Ariel Pontes
April 11, 2021November 7, 2021

How insights from different moral philosophies can help us find common ground

Political hashtags: abortion is murder, me too, dairy is rape, fuck the police, black lives matter, meat is murder, no means no, taxation is theft, not all men, all lives matter.

Performative language

by Ariel Pontes
July 8, 2020July 8, 2020

How philosophy of language can help us communicate in a polarized society

People hold signs at a rally held in opposition to a proposed bill that would remove parents’ ability to claim a philosophical exemption to opt their school-age children out of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., Feb. 2019.

Conspiracy theories

by Ariel Pontes
May 9, 2020July 8, 2020

Why coronavirus and vaccine conspiracies are implausible

On Jordan Peterson

by Ariel Pontes
December 27, 2019July 8, 2020

A review of 12 Rules for Life and other content

Vegans and omnivores must join forces

by Ariel Pontes
June 15, 2019July 8, 2020

For the good of the animals and the planet

No rent for Gypsies, Arabs or blacks in Bucharest

by Ariel Pontes
June 15, 2018July 8, 2020

They are dirty and violent and the landlord doesn’t want any trouble

Can minorities be racist?

by Ariel Pontes
January 15, 2017July 26, 2020

On one end of the spectrum, PC leftists say there’s no such thing as reverse racism because minorities can’t be racist. At all. Ever. On the other extreme, alt-righters say racism against oppressed minorities is as bad as racism against privileged majorities and therefore the very categorization of racism into “reverse racism” and “regular racism” is inherently racist because it suggests one may be worse than the other. I’m usually skeptical about such black-and-white statements, so I would like to propose the truth lies somewhere in between.Read More »Can minorities be racist?