"Like" This Essay — The Case Against Social Media
Social media isn’t the cause of these crises in our culture; rather, there is a sense that it has betrayed its higher purpose.
Timothy Cootes
· 6 min read
Philosophy
A collection of 233 posts
Forget de Botton's Advice — Why Lower Expectations Won't Help Your Marriage
Marriage is casting a vote for a candidate who will help us create the kind of life we can enjoy and value.
Noam Shpancer
· 7 min read
'Socialism': Why the Word Matters
Sanders has also popularized the notion of socialism within the American zeitgeist. ‘Socialism’ used to be a bad word, but it isn’t anymore.
Hrishikesh Joshi
· 5 min read
The Josiah Effect: How Moderate Religion Fuels Fundamentalism
As it turns out, the phenomenon of a young man becoming radicalized after reading his religion’s holy book for the first time has been around for thousands of years.
Henry Rambow
· 10 min read
The Mathematics of Happiness
It is popular wisdom that there are many things in this world that just can’t be quantified. It may be the case, as sociologist William Bruce Cameron suggested, that “not all the counts can be counted”.
Brendon Brewer
· 8 min read
Reza Aslan Peddles False Wares to Influential Dupes
Aslan peddles a sanitized version of Islam to gullible viewers.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 14 min read
In Their Rush to Blame Religion, New Atheists Overlook Evil
Pragmatists differ from rationalists by viewing unfiltered criticism of religion as a painfully counterproductive way to proceed.
Timothy Rowe
· 5 min read
Confusion About -Isms Is Compounding Schisms
As many of these confusions pertain to some variety of liberalism — classical, neo, libertarian — let’s start clarifying things there.
Mark Fabian
· 10 min read
Harold Bloom and Aesthetics in an Age of Piety
Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.
James Walker
· 6 min read
On Opinions and Entitlement
The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Jamie Palmer
· 13 min read
Why Innovation Requires Economic Freedom
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
Aaron Tao
· 5 min read
How to Have an Opinion Worth Hearing
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
How Marcuse Made Today’s Students Less Tolerant than Their Parents
For six decades, social scientists have almost universally treated intolerance as a negative social disease.
April Kelly-Woessner
· 5 min read
Regaining a Sense of Sanity in an Age of Social Media
The cultural practices of manufactured outrage, sensationalism and professional offense taking seem to have set us on course for a total cultural burnout.
J. Andrew
· 7 min read