Progressive Myths
A philosopher takes progressive claims one at a time and asks whether the evidence supports them.
Michael Huemer works through a set of widely repeated beliefs about discrimination, inequality, crime and policy, and examines the empirical basis for each. The method is analytic philosophy applied to contested political claims: define the assertion precisely, then see what the data can bear. Written to be argued with rather than agreed with.
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