Posts tagged: censorship

Interview with Kelsey Piper on Self-Censorship and the Vibe Shift

On 17 July 2025, I sat down with Kelsey Piper to chat about politics and social epistemology. You can listen to the audio file—

Or read the transcript below, which has been edited for clarity.

Nixon on Forbidden Hypotheses

I listened with great interest to this segment of a 1971 recording of a conversation between President Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (starting at the 56 second mark). You really wonder more generally what things powerful people think in private that they can't say in public.

NIXON: I read …