- How Ayn Rand Helped Turn the U.S. Into a Selfish, Greedy Nation: “The ‘Atlas Shrugged’ author made selfishness heroic and caring about others weakness.”
- Turning Science Into the New Welfare Queen: “Ronald Reagan created a mythological character — the “Welfare Queen” — and taught America that it was OK to be racist, OK to hate poor people, and OK to resent paying taxes. More than 30 years later, a substantial number of Americans still believe that lazy black women make millions of dollars a year by popping out babies and signing them up for welfare.” This model is now being applied to scientific research as a whole – and is aimed at the NSF.
- Why I Am Not a Maker: By Deb Chachra. “When tech culture only celebrates creation, it risks ignoring those who teach, criticize, and take care of others.”
- Infamous, Thoughtless, Careless: A 3-part series by Mark Bernstein on Wikipedia’s recent #GamerGate banhammer on feminist editors.
- Reinforcing Other Axes of Oppression Isn’t “Punching Up”: Self-explanatory title.