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Who Killed Common Law?original ↗

13 Apr 2026

Telescopes Need Good Lenses original ↗

7 Apr 2026

The Corner-Stone original ↗

2 Apr 2026

Socrates is Mortal original ↗

26 Mar 2026

Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?original ↗

22 Mar 2026

Does Hebrew Have Verbs?original ↗

18 Mar 2026

Compradorization original ↗

16 Mar 2026

Ideologies Embed Taboos Against Common Knowledge Formation: a Case Study with LLMs original ↗

12 Mar 2026

Statisticism: How Cluster-Thinking About Data Creates Blind Spots original ↗

8 Mar 2026

Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?original ↗

4 Mar 2026

Is GDP a Kind of Factory?original ↗

2 Mar 2026

2025

Steelmanning the Eruv original ↗

28 Jul 2025

If there were no journalism, how would we find out?original ↗

16 Jun 2025

The Domestic Product original ↗

11 Apr 2025

PTSD vs Moral Injury original ↗

9 Apr 2025

DOGE in context original ↗

17 Mar 2025

The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government original ↗

12 Feb 2025

Si No Se Puede original ↗

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Predation as Payment for Criticism original ↗

29 Jan 2025

Ethical Veganism is Wrong original ↗

28 Jan 2025

Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?original ↗

16 Jan 2025

Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism original ↗

2 Jan 2025

The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic original ↗

1 Jan 2025

2024

Parliamentary and Other Powers original ↗

8 Nov 2024

Levels of Republicanism original ↗

8 Sept 2024

Systems of Bullshit Work original ↗

29 Aug 2024

Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency original ↗

27 Aug 2024

LLMs for language learning original ↗

27 May 2024

Gentrification and Nationalism original ↗

16 May 2024

2023

Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation original ↗

19 Dec 2023

Why I am no longer anti-Trump original ↗

4 Dec 2023

Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir original ↗

6 Oct 2023

Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library original ↗

6 Sept 2023

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12 Aug 2023

What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.original ↗

24 Jul 2023

2022

Guilt, Shame, and Depravity original ↗

7 Dec 2022

It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.original ↗

21 Nov 2022

Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.original ↗

18 Jul 2022

Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics original ↗

2 Jun 2022

Preference Inversion original ↗

5 May 2022

2021

The Debtors' Revolt original ↗

25 Dec 2021

How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers original ↗

26 Nov 2021

Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X original ↗

23 Aug 2021

Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis original ↗

13 Aug 2021

Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva original ↗

25 Jul 2021

Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?original ↗

20 Jul 2021

Normies vs Statistical Normality original ↗

10 May 2021

Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama original ↗

6 Apr 2021

Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment original ↗

5 Apr 2021

Suffering as Cybernetic Failure original ↗

8 Mar 2021

On Some Buddhist Teachings original ↗

7 Mar 2021

CPTSD and Attachment original ↗

4 Mar 2021

Jargon and Attachment original ↗

3 Mar 2021

Honey Butter and the Grain War original ↗

2 Mar 2021

Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD original ↗

1 Mar 2021

Self-Criticism vs Self-Blame original ↗

28 Feb 2021

Inner Ring as Adversary original ↗

26 Feb 2021

Floating into Awareness original ↗

24 Feb 2021

Who controls the vertical? Who controls the horizontal?original ↗

10 Feb 2021

Language, Power, and the Categorical Imperative original ↗

7 Feb 2021

The Trauma Coup original ↗

2 Feb 2021

2020

Civil Law and Political Drama original ↗

24 Dec 2020

Childhood Memory original ↗

12 Dec 2020

D is for COVID original ↗

13 Sept 2020

The Logic of Pol Pot original ↗

1 Sept 2020

Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography original ↗

31 Aug 2020

To-Do Stress original ↗

30 Aug 2020

On Transgressive Coordination original ↗

28 Aug 2020

On Straussian Esoteric Readings original ↗

27 Aug 2020

What is Stockholm Syndrome?original ↗

26 Aug 2020

Against Conservative Liberalism original ↗

25 Aug 2020

Aphorisms from Twitter original ↗

24 Aug 2020

Reason as an Identity Group original ↗

23 Aug 2020

Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal original ↗

21 Aug 2020

The motivation to write original ↗

20 Aug 2020

Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates original ↗

7 Jun 2020

Can crimes be discussed literally?original ↗

22 Mar 2020

Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?original ↗

17 Mar 2020

When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations original ↗

10 Mar 2020

Simulacra and Subjectivity original ↗

5 Mar 2020

2019

Approval Extraction Advertised as Production original ↗

15 Dec 2019

Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field original ↗

26 Oct 2019

Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique original ↗

12 Jul 2019

On street violence original ↗

6 Jul 2019

Blatant lies are the best kind!original ↗

3 Jul 2019

Reason isn't magic original ↗

18 Jun 2019

A drowning child is hard to find original ↗

28 May 2019

Xanadu riffs original ↗

22 May 2019

A War of Ants and Grasshoppers original ↗

21 May 2019

Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game original ↗

7 May 2019

Pecking Order and wings original ↗

6 May 2019

Blame games original ↗

5 May 2019

Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?original ↗

4 May 2019

Authoritarian empiricism original ↗

3 May 2019

Totalitarian ethical systems original ↗

3 May 2019

Commentary on Philosophy War original ↗

17 Apr 2019

Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra original ↗

10 Apr 2019

Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy original ↗

14 Mar 2019

2018

MeToo is good original ↗

19 Nov 2018

Why I am no longer supporting REACH original ↗

15 Nov 2018