Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory […]
Perennial philosophy
Aldous Huxley argued that all religions in the world were underpinned by universal beliefs and experiences. Was he right? When I was a teenager, I came across Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial […]
Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?
We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses. If you want to measure how the state of the world is changing, and that’s a valuable thing to do, you […]
THE INTELLECTUAL WE DESERVE
Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape How does one even address material like this? It can’t be “refuted.” Are we ruled by […]