Here's an article about Prime Minister Liz Truss's libertarian catastrophe, and how the economists’ reaction to her failure in offi...

Read on as I chart how psychoactive plants have shaped our species through history, religion, elitism, and the political divide between lib...

Read on about natural functions, economic casuistry, how sociality emerges from nature, and why the laws of orthodox, physics-envying econo...

Read on about the superficiality of reconstructed, liberal Christianity, and about a modern spiritual counterculture that withstands scruti...

Read on about economic rationality, subjective value, and the neoclassical economist’s magic tricks that made her discipline seem more scie...

Here's a critique of Ryan Holiday's pseudo-Stoic self-help advice, and an explanation of why his books nevertheless dominate the bo...

Read on about Jordan Peterson's incoherent manifesto and where his “conservativism” lands in the struggle between humanism and barbaris...

Read on to reflect on the full scope of humanistic progress, and on how intellectuals might have the last laugh in the pessimistic version ...

Read on about how spiritual bedrock is corrosive to organized religion, and how the Christianity that survives its deconstruction may no lo...

Here's an article  about Jean Baudrillard’s concept of the hyperreal, some harbingers of hyperreality, and how the prevalence of simulac...