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  • The Myth of Productivity in a Culture Addicted to Motion

    The Myth of Productivity in a Culture Addicted to Motion0

    We’re obsessed with motion. Calendars fill up faster than we can keep track. Notifications never stop. We celebrate people who work insane hours like exhaustion is some kind of badge of honor. Somewhere along the way, just moving became how we measure success. But motion isn’t progress. Being busy is not equal to being productive.

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  • The Myth of Millennial Socialism

    The Myth of Millennial Socialism0

    My old man tells me he left college in the 1970s and walked into a job for life. He tells me his first home cost twice the average salary. Then he tells me, without a soupçon of jest, “things were still pretty tough back then.” His brow—unapologetically smooth for its 65 years, cheeks plumped fat and youthfully

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  • The Myth of Life Expectancy

    The Myth of Life Expectancy0

    “Well, yeah, but most people only lived to the age of 40 back then, so…” This is a common retort I see in response to comparisons between our modern age and the past. It’s intended as a mic drop that supposedly illustrates our superiority to our less scientifically-minded ancestors, who were apparently too wrapped up in superstitious

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  • The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis

    The Myth of Earth’s Overpopulation Crisis0

    Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will

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  • The Myth of American Meritocracy

    The Myth of American Meritocracy0

    The most destructive and pervasive myth in America today is that we live in a meritocracy. Our elites, so the myth goes, earned their places at Yale and Harvard, on Wall Street and in Washington—not because of the accident of their birth, but because they are better, stronger, and smarter than the rest of us. Therefore, they

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  • The Myth Making of Antifa Intellectuals

    The Myth Making of Antifa Intellectuals0

    Mark Bray is in his early thirties and the recipient of a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers in 2016. He is also rapidly becoming antifa’s chief ideologue. Among his works describing or advocating for the often violent demonstrators are Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook and Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street. Bray has yet to find a major

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