I’ve been meditating on-and-off for around 6 years now and while it’s been relatively useful in regulating my mood and stress levels it hadn’t yielded the world-rending revelations that some of my friends who are “more serious” about the practice said it would. That changed a couple weeks ago when I had an experience that […]
Wherein we take a look at the different ways to assign moral status, discuss their pros/cons, and apply that to the practical example of human embryos
An exploration of Moral Status, how it relates to Natural Rights, the ways Moral Status can be possessed, and whether animals can have Natural Rights
A discussion of Negative vs. Positive Rights, Natural vs Legal Rights, and how to use them to decide whether access to clean water is a “Human Right”
I’m currently reading through Robert Kagan’s book “The Jungle Grows Back“. The purpose of the book is to explain the history and importance of the Liberal World Order, America’s role in it, and why America should continue investing blood and treasure in its maintenance. In preparation for writing a series of posts on that book, I […]
This post serves as a long-term repository for interesting articles I’ve come across and hope to someday dive deeper into and turn into a full post. I’ve broken them up by topic. Gender Quillette article that addresses the topic of “toxic masculinity” from an evolutionary biology perspective Here are a couple articles talking about a […]
This is the third post in a series that contains my summary of/thoughts about Henry Kissinger’s book “World Order“. The purpose of the book is to convey the conceptions of World Order that different civilizations have developed over the course of their history. In this post I’ll continuing our discussion on the American view of […]
This is the second post in a series that contains my summary of/thoughts about Henry Kissinger’s book “World Order“. The purpose of the book is to convey the conceptions of World Order that different civilizations have developed over the course of their history. In this post I’ll be considering the American view of World Order. […]
This post contains some thoughts I had about a recent Quillette article that discussed whether any implementation of Marxist political philosophy in the real world inevitably results in authoritarian regimes. The article’s approach is persuasive; here’s how I would phrase that argument. What is Marxism? To answer this question, we must first define Marxism. In […]
This post is a summary of an Intelligence Squared US debate I listened to. The motion debated: globalization has undermined America’s working class. The portion of the American working class that is directly exposed to international competition is ~20% (factory workers as opposed to service industry workers). Of this 20%, less than half of jobs […]
This is the first post in a series that contain my summary of/thoughts about Henry Kissinger’s book “World Order“. The purpose of the book is to convey the conceptions of World Order that different civilizations have developed over the course of their history. In this post I’ll be considering the European view of World Order. […]
The Examined Life 