Philosophy

This Machine Rages Back: An Interview With Ewan Morrison

Ewan Morrison's For Emma is billed as a sci-fi thriller, but it’s just as much a work of deeply philosophical horror.

Jun 13, 2025 • Jamie Paul

I Passed Out at the Wheel of a Moving Car So You Don’t Have To

Or, how I learned to live with the guilt of not being superhuman.

Mar 17, 2025 • Jamie Paul

The Free Will Debate Is Dead, but It Shambles On

What was once a cosmic question has been reduced to silly word games.

Jan 6, 2025 • Jamie Paul

The Unsettling Reading List

10 books to take you out of your comfort zone

Jun 14, 2024 • Jamie Paul

The Emptiness of Being Culturally Religious

Research shows benefits associated with being religious, but only if you're actually religious.

Apr 1, 2024 • Jamie Paul

On Finding Balance

Life, work, and the chaos of radical autonomy

Jan 12, 2024 • Jamie Paul

Living Well Is the Best Activism

Don’t underestimate the power of leading by example.

Nov 17, 2023 • Jamie Paul

Believers and atheists can only be truly free together.

Nov 3, 2023 • Timothy Wood

No, You Didn’t Build That

The myth of the "self-made" man, and other male maladies of the mind.

Sep 1, 2023 • Jamie Paul

The Wizards of Bullshit

Our language police have overlooked the most offensive speech of all: postmodern gibberish.

Aug 11, 2023 • Timothy Wood

Racist Command Theory

How negative partisanship and guilt-by-association turned the far right into our divine moral arbiters.

Jul 15, 2023 • Jamie Paul

Why I Don’t Write More About Veganism

Principles and the sanctity of feelings.

Jan 13, 2023 • Jamie Paul

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