S Peter Davis

Home

🔒 Suicidal Empathy and Prescriptive Psychopathy

Hey there, Sorry folks, the version of this article I sent earlier was missing a chunk of text in the middle and I don't know how that happened. Please read the corrected version from after the picture of Russell Crowe around 2/3 down. -- In today’s context

Home

Chessboxing: Why the Right Can't Win Debates

As this is a politically opinionated column, I tend to get three different types of response: Lefties agreeing with me, lefties respectfully disagreeing with me, and occasionally, righties who, in every single case, very obviously did not read what they are responding to except maybe part of the headline.  Something

Home

Why You Can't Treat Online Communities Like Offline Communities

I don't like talking about Substack much because a lot of my Ghost audience subscribes specifically to get away from Substack, and I hear you. But part of my beat is talking about online communities and, for this week's topic, Substack just happens to be my

Home

🔒 Chessboxing: Why the Right Can't Win Debates

As this is a politically opinionated column, I tend to get three different types of response: Lefties agreeing with me, lefties respectfully disagreeing with me, and occasionally, righties who, in every single case, very obviously did not read what they are responding to except maybe part of the headline.  Something

Home

Relax, It's Not Technically Genocide

By 2030, Elon Musk is projected to have killed about 14 million people, and I think that should be the primary thing that he is known for. I think this fact should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry and that it should come before mentions of him

Home

🔒 Why You Can't Treat Online Communities Like Offline Communities

I don't like talking about Substack much because a lot of my Ghost audience subscribes specifically to get away from Substack, and I hear you. But part of my beat is talking about online communities and, for this week's topic, Substack just happens to be my

Home

Trump's America is a Masculinity Drag Show

Here’s the most fascinating thing I’ve read in a minute: Studies show that voting for Donald Trump makes men feel more masculine.  To be clear, I don’t mean that Trump motivates men to be more masculine. That’s not the effect. He isn’t inspiring men to

Home

🔒 Relax, It's Not Technically Genocide

By 2030, Elon Musk is projected to have killed about 14 million people, and I think that should be the primary thing that he is known for. I think this fact should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry and that it should come before mentions of him

Home

The Internet is An Ever Expanding Graveyard

Something has been bothering me for a little while now. It was exacerbated recently by a short essay by Dave Karpf about the fact that Bluesky isn’t taking off. Like, at all.  And I know a lot of you are going to say “Well, of course it’s not

Home

🔒 Trump's America is a Masculinity Drag Show

Here’s the most fascinating thing I’ve read in a minute: Studies show that voting for Donald Trump makes men feel more masculine.  To be clear, I don’t mean that Trump motivates men to be more masculine. That’s not the effect. He isn’t inspiring men to

Home

🔒 How Geeks Ate the World: The Red Pill Factory

Pickup Artistry and its roots in quack psychotherapy, pop philosophy, and marketing.

Home

How the Right's Odyssey Rage Shows They Will Never Win the Culture War

So Christopher Nolan has gone and done it. The absolute madman has committed the perfect sin. An act of treachery and defiance so brazen that only a .gif of Jack Nicholson nodding evilly can do it proper justice. He cast Lupita Nyong’o as, of all people, Helen of Troy.