Philosophy
Trolleyer-Than-Thou
Ideologues seem to want to make classes in ethical theory into classes of ethical training.
Who Nudges the Nudgers?
For paternalism to work, paternalists need to have skin in the game.
Exit / No Exit
In the United States, to leave the highway means, in nearly all cases, to turn right.
The Right Needs Joy
If you really wish to “red-pill the normies,” you must show them how to love.
Silicon Valley Struggle Sessions
The American techno-state has, after religion, become more fundamentalist.
Humanities Against Humanity
Soft academic disciplines have become a self-referential feedback loop of bullshit.
Modernity’s Fertility Problem
At the demographic level, modernity selects systematically against modern populations. This is an existential risk.
The Atomization Trap
There is no withdrawal ‘back’ into community that doesn't reinforce the pattern of exit from which atomization replenishes its momentum.
Trump’s Secret Sauce
There is no “Trump” to analyze or indict -- he is an agent of of America’s dysfunction and partitioned universes.