Very interesting, but their other article that they reference, while basically true, felt like beating around a few iffy bushes. Not that this invalidates the PR article, but it's frustrating when people are so close to getting it. Maybe a few of these is me being paranoid as I don't know who this is and it was written in 2004. There's also a follow up with a dedicated disappointing section on socialism and entrepreneurs.

By the time you get to social questions, many changes are just fashion. The age of consent fluctuates like hemlines.

What counts as pornography and violence? And what, exactly, is "hate speech?" This sounds like a phrase out of 1984.

We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was also one of the winners.

Take a label — "sexist", for example — and try to think of some ideas that would be called that. Then for each ask, might this be true?

To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn't need taboos to protect it.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable. Natural selection, for example.