How to Deal with Online Virtue Signaling
You’ve had a long day at work and come home wanting to unwind. You decide to scroll through your social media just to pass...
Using the Absurd: How Erasmus Challenges His Students
The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, more often called Erasmus of Rotterdam, is well known for his satirical Praise of Folly, his letters, and his...
Dystopian Futures: Anthropic and the Department of Defense
Fantastical imaginings of a bleak and desolate end-state of mankind, characterized by environmental disasters, tyrannical governments, or some other cataclysmic decline, have been around...
Let Kids Be Kids? The Ethics of Maximizing Children’s Talents
Sam is fourteen years old. He spends hardly any time with friends or family. Every day, before or after school, or both, and every...
Love Is All a Matter of Timing
The Allegory of the Gynoids in Wong Kar-wai’s 2046
Many films are about love, but Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 is about love in a deeper sense....
Distracting Metaphors
Metaphors are great. They can make us see something in a new light: Think of universities as the beating heart of humanity and see...
How to Walk Away
Breaking up with someone can be painful and difficult. Breakups can make you depressed and even damage your heart and immune system. For that...
The Paradox of China’s Crypto Regulation and Capital Going Global (Part 1)
How China's Web3 Is Shifting from Token Finance to Data and State Credit
On November 28, 2025, the People’s Bank of China convened a meeting...
Good Work and Economic Democracy
Many political philosophers argue that all people are entitled as a matter of justice to real access to good work: skilled work that affords...
Nostalgic Longing for Childhood
Within popular culture, literature, television, and film, nostalgia is often (if not invariably) associated with childhood. From Proust to Tarkovsky up to modern outputs...