A Right to Hate?
In August, French blogger Pauline Harmange published a booklet titled Moi les hommes, je les dรฉteste (Me, men, I loathe them), which caused quite a stir in France (and a…
In August, French blogger Pauline Harmange published a booklet titled Moi les hommes, je les dรฉteste (Me, men, I loathe them), which caused quite a stir in France (and a…
Presumably, you are aware that weโre in the middle of a disaster. Thatโs unpleasant โ to say the least โ but itโs also quite instructive. There is much we can…
Suddenly everyone seems to have opinions about viruses and how to deal with them. If youโve been following this blog for a while, you may already know my opinion about…
[Updates and corrections below original post.] In The 2020s and Beyond I mentioned that โblack swansโ (unpredictable, extreme events) can seriously mess up any prediction. In that article I sketched…
(This is part 6 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In The Ethics of Climate Insurgency I argued that an insurgency aimed at overthrowing the enemies of our children…
(This is part 3 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In On the Fragility of Civilization, I argued that due to the slowly compounding effects of an increasing number…
We all believe in stories. Stories about ourselves, stories about the world around us, about the societies and communities we are part of, about our histories, and so forth. We…
โAt the center of the symbolic order is the abhorrence of death,โ writes Odile Strik in the conclusion of her short essay The Symbolic Order of Life and Manhood. The…
(This is part 5 in the โCrisis and Inertiaโ series.) In the first episode in this series I argued that societies and other social โobjectsโ (cultures, beliefs, institutions, ideas, ideologies,…