Paradox Project Blog

‘Moral’ Eating Is Only for Rich People

You don’t have to spend a fortune to eat well. It’s easier to eat well if you have more money, but a lack of extra income shouldn’t block us from an essential joy of life.

It’s when we start to mix our diets with morality that we risk creating a truly awful world.

How to Trick Atheists into Believing in God

The Simulator theory is not only unproven but unprovable.  Yet unproven belief in God is considered absurd and unproven belief that we are in a computer simulation is written up in Scientific American.

I Will Never Vote for Trump

I will never vote for Donald Trump, not in any scenario, not if he picks someone I respect and admire as VP, not if he swears on a stack of Bibles that he’ll do the right thing by the Supreme Court and stop undermining the pro-life cause and be the conservative he’s never once been before if we somehow make him president.

At Least He’s Not Satan: The Best of #NeverTrump

What’s a conservative to do when the movement faces something as terrible as Trump?

Respond with principle and passion … and don’t lose your sense of humor. If nothing else, at least Donald J. Trump has inspired some unforgettable quotes from #NeverTrump conservatives. 

Boot France and Italy Out of Kids’ Books

When it comes to teaching American kids history, a healthy dose of Eurocentrism is justified. Our country was founded by Europeans and is only just now making a demographic shift to become majority non-white. Much of US history is tied up with the European empires we rebelled, competed and fought against.

But Europe is not the whole world, and it’s getting less representative of the world every day.

The Rules Of Twitter Journalism

Twitter is a vast and glorious place and one of the wonderful things about it is the many different ways people can use it. Some people use Twitter to shout their opinions to the world, while others use it to talk quietly among friends.

But when it comes to reporting, how should journalists use it? 

At the moment, we’re using it all wrong. We’re grabbing random tweets, isolated conversations locked into a 140-character limit, and using them to drive whatever story we want. We need to stop. So the Paradox team decided we needed some rules for using Twitter as a foundation for our stories.