As the (adapted) saying goes, “everyone wants to be Trad until it’s time to do Trad shit.” I write philosophy of a practical ...

This dominance by appearance is part of Crowdism, which is how human individualists working together adopt a collectivist ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...

Religions never give you proof. You have to take a leap of faith. If you had proof, you would no longer be obeying because ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,” said Adrienne Massanari, ...

In Southern cities, people have a culture that emphasizes fairness including ensuring that your group does not get ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

For those who enjoy a good lively discussion, I was on the Necropolis AD podcast episode DEATH TO POSEURS this morning ...

When one is an outsider, openness leads to wanting to understand the other. Once one is inside the society, all the ...