Publication Day! No more hype, time to fight.
You can now get your copy of End Times Fascism – And the Fight For the Living World
Department
Philosophy.
Wisdom, ethics, and first principles.
Lately on the shelf
30 of 636Natural Law Theory Is Obviously False
The worst theory in ethics
Zombie Freud, part I
Psychoanalysis has been killed many times over. Why does it keep getting up?
The Origin of the Necropolis
Follow up on Death and Sex in Palestine
150 Controversial Views
Plus reassessing the old ones
Kids These Days, Part II
More about smartphones, bans, and the good life
Some Links
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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech
Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor
Linkpost September
On philosophers starting substacks, AI bioweapons, and oh so many miracles
Brand new short film! Plus early press for End Times Fascism
We collaborated with filmmakers to create a video that lays out both the threat and the stakes of what we call “the fight for the living world.”
Vile Incurable Sores on Innocent Tongues
On rats
Video: How to travel
Episode 27 of Ars Vivendi: Conversations on the art of living
The Golden Age of Impact
The best time in history for making a huge positive impact
Wishful Thinking Is (Mostly) A Myth - Unpaywalled
How social games, not comforting falsehoods, distort what we believe.
The Mother of All Trolley Problems
Or is it one thought experiment too many?
Hugging Face is Much Scarier Than Was Reported
I was wrong
What kinds of things are living organisms?
The forgotten middle path between clockwork and magic
Limited Inerrancy: Limited Plausibility
My last volley in the religion wars--for now
How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on the future
The far-right is rising again. But this time, their vision for bunkered survivalism bets on permanent “bad times.” Excerpted from Rerun or Sequel?, an essay published in the Financial Times.
“What is this? A dilemma for ants?”
I have a question about the protestant dilemma
How to find happiness with Cicero
Part XLI of the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series
Joe Schmid and Noah McKay Are Wrong About Fatima
It’s definitely not a miracle
Is AI a form of life?
Podcast with Robert Wright
Signs and Existence
On Signs, Reality, and Language Between Nietzsche and Hamann
Do doomers believe what they say?
A test
GPT-6 Astra Reviews ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’
There is currently much debate about how impressive frontier AI models really are and what role they can play in research, including in academic philosophy. To get some evidence, I asked GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new model, to review my book, ‘The Social Roots of…
Discussing Catholicism With Dustin Crummett
Why Catholicism is untenable
Suggested Readings
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
A Brief Reminder
That tens of billions of land animals are slaughtered every year in demented torture farms where they are forced to live in filth and feces, where they can’t turn around, where their tails and beaks are snipped off with a knife, and they choke on the noxious f…
Old-New Anti-Semitism
The infinite reproducibility of anti-Semitism