Dear readers,

Ideas Sleep Furiously is no more…Aporia is born! (You can read the story behind the name change here). We have much to tell you.

First, we’re producing far too much content for individual emails, so we’re switching to a single weekly email.

We’ll publish articles on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but they won’t be sent to your inbox. Instead, if you want instant publication notifications, you’ll need to follow us on Twitter and turn on notifications (note we also collect readers’ questions for our podcast guests there). The Saturday email will be sent out concurrently with the podcast upload on YouTube/whatever podcast player you use.

The format of these weekly emails will be as follows:

1. Housekeeping (announcements)

2. Articles

3. Podcasts

4. The Vault (previous articles you might have missed)

Housekeeping

1. Last week, I traveled to Cambridge to meet Rob Henderson and Nathan Cofnas (photo of us obscuring King’s College Chapel below). At some point, a special filmed interview with Rob will drop on the main YouTube channel. I also recorded an interview with Sander van der Linden about his new book on fighting misinformation.

🎙️ Ideas Sleep Furiously 🧠 @Ideas_Sleep

Some fun stuff coming.

7:00 PM ∙ Mar 11, 2023

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2. We passed 100 paid subscribers on Substack! This means we get a lovely orange tick.

   

   In reality, we passed this landmark some time ago, because we also have a Patreon. I haven’t promoted Patreon in a while, but I really should! Why? Because it’s a great way for rich and poor alike to support us. If you can’t afford a full Substack subscription, you can pledge as little as $1 per month. Likewise, we have the occasional supporter who wants to pledge significantly more than the monthly $6.99 Substack subscription, and Patreon allows them to do just that.

3. Congrats to reader Olivier Kaan, who nominated Saul Kripke as the best person to die childless in 2022. Our readers voted Saul Kripke as the winner of the inaugural Dysgenics Award. Olivier wins a $250 Amazon gift card.

Articles

John Mac Ghlionn questions the links between marijuana and the decline of men. He writes:

Marijuana is just one more bandage that people put on an underlying, pustulating wound.

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Marijuana & The Decline of Men

Written by John Mac Ghlionn The United States is thoroughly divided. Some fear that a civil war is imminent. Whether Americans go to war with each other remains to be seen. But wars are not always fought with bombs and bullets. As I write this, there is a psychological war taking place. The…

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6 days ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Aporia Magazine

Gary Marks details why social scientists must replace the SES paradigm with the genetic transmission paradigm and why they won’t:

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Death of a Paradigm

Written by Gary Marks Socioeconomic status (SES) dominates research, public debate, policy, and politics on social inequality. From early childhood to graduate school, inequalities between children and students are largely attributed to parents’ education, occupational class, income, and/or wealth. Since education is important for subsequent social and e…

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8 days ago · 4 likes · 1 comment · Aporia Magazine

Podcasts

Our podcast with Nathan Cofnas is now live for the public:

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The Heterodox Academy has Failed! | Nathan Cofnas

Listen now (59 min) | Nathan Cofnas is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He works in the philosophy of biology (very broadly construed) and ethics, and the intersection of these fields. He is particularly interested in scientific and ethical controversies connected with evolution-informed social science…

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11 days ago · 11 likes · 1 comment · Aporia Magazine

And supporters can access Diana’s conversation with Amy Wax, and Nathan Cofnas’ most controversial opinion!

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Nathan Cofnas' Most Controversial Opinion

Hi all, Diana spoke with Nathan for another 23 minutes after the main show, and it’s well worth listening to! Nathan has a brilliant answer for the smartest person he has ever met. I’d never heard of him, and I bet you haven’t either! Nathan and Diana also talk about moral realism and why Nathan thinks it doesn’t hold up — very enjoyable…

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6 days ago · Aporia Magazine

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Not without a fight! | Amy Wax

Listen now (73 min) | Amy Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amy attended and graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry in 1975. She then attended Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in Physiology and Psychology. Wax then went to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School, before doing a residency in neurology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and working as a consulting neurologist at a clinic in the Bronx and for a medical group in Brooklyn. She completed her legal education at Columbia Law School whilst working part-time…

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4 days ago · Aporia Magazine

If you’d like to support us and gain access to these podcasts, we’re running a special offer to celebrate our name change:

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The Vault

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Ideology literally makes people illogical

Listen now (5 min) | Below are three arguments. I want you to think about whether the conclusions follow from the given premises. (1) All drugs that are dangerous should be illegal. Marijuana is a drug that is dangerous. Therefore, Marijuana should be illegal. (2) Judge Wilson believes that if a living thing is not a person, then one has the right to end its life. She also b…

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9 months ago · 21 likes · 6 comments · Aporia Magazine

Until next week.

Matthew Archer,

Editor-in-Chief