A collection of 233 posts
On the anniversary of 7 October, philosopher David Benatar discusses the ethical questions it raises and about his new book, “Very Practical Ethics.”
Students should study extensively the presidential rhetoric of earlier times, because it often demonstrates civility far better than the rhetoric of the present.
Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding.
In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.
The case against retweets, what’s wrong with the War on Terror, equality in light of difference, and more.
Richard Matheson, George R. Stewart, and the birth of the Calipocalypse.
It’s the things and people that offer pushback that make personal achievement possible and meaningful. It’s the knots that drive us to comb.
The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.
Butler’s latest book is leftist political propaganda masquerading as the dispassionate work of an academic.
Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.
Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives.
No one has an obligation to express, or refrain from expressing, a particular view, merely because they are part of a minority group.
Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50.
Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else.