Disorder in Heaven The end of greatness in heavyweight combat sports. Alexander Blum 30 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
Democratic Socialism or Social Democracy? The function of the label “democratic socialist” is being changed through usage. Take, for example, the political label “liberal.” Alexander Blum 26 Dec 2018 · 7 min read
Religions, Nations, and Other Useful Fictions But it has been entirely exorcised, emptied of soul and Christianity, respecting only the machine underneath. Alexander Blum 11 Aug 2018 · 7 min read
Why Jordan B Peterson Appeals to Me (And I Am on the Left) Peterson’s critics would be helping him refine his theories and hone his argumentation, moving our cultural conceptions of human nature forward. Alexander Blum 22 Mar 2018 · 11 min read
The Failed Hero’s Journey A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force. Alexander Blum 14 Jan 2018 · 7 min read
Free Speech Leftists Still Exist The perception, understandably, follows that the right is in favor of free expression, and the left has become wholly illiberal. Alexander Blum 2 Jan 2018 · 7 min read
Using the Blockchain to Fight Corruption Blockchain technology has the power to render the dealings of businesses and nation states into open books, purged of secrecy and the privacy of elite cabals. Alexander Blum 25 Dec 2017 · 6 min read
American Centrism Has Failed Hillary Clinton was evidently a centrist all along, prizing vague pragmatism, hawkish foreign policy and entrenched norms instead of a unique political vision. Alexander Blum 9 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
Jung and the Trumpian Shadow We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us. Alexander Blum 2 Oct 2017 · 9 min read
