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Epistemology at Scale
The campaign against Brett Kavanaugh was the perfect crime: smuggling empathetic truths into a situation too universal for empathy.
My Friend Karl: A Review of My Struggle: Book Six
Karl Ove Knausgaard is moved by myth and tradition in a way that betrays his calculated political apathy.
Whigged Out
Technology will determine the politics of the future. This invites a return to impersonal readings of history.
After the WEIRDing
Rod Dreher and Peter Sloterdijk offer alternative trajectories for fragmentation: sacred collectivities or transformative individuations.
God’s Own Cryptosystem
How Heisenberg Uncertainty might be a way to prevent timing attacks against the universe.
Glancing Backwards in the Desert
Burning Man is a post-modern post-religion. But it has something substantial to teach about staving off nihilism.
Game Over
Industrialized leisure is yet another candidate for the title of the secular age's surrogate religion.
Sarah Jeong and the Only Direction
The radicalism that is mainstream in the American press is not Marxism. It's something more cynical.
SimCity in Real Life
Urban planners, focusing on skylines over substance, treat the science of building a city as though it's a video game.
