A collection of 20 posts
The most consequential weakness of philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock’s new polemic against assisted dying is its failure to engage with the empirical record.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Kathleen Stock about her new book, ‘Do Not Go Gentle’—in which she argues that governments should be denied any institutional role in facilitating the death of their citizens.
Tech companies stand to benefit from widespread public misperceptions that AI is sentient despite a dearth of scientific evidence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
The defeat of Hamas is a moral necessity, but that does not obviate Israel’s responsibility to minimize civilian suffering.
Those who demand an end to all suffering at any cost exhibit a utopian foolishness.
On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable.
Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it.
Storytelling is then—in every era and every culture—a dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers.
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.