The Positive Case for Cruelty
Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman
How authority gets mistaken for the truth
Memoirs and therapy are not self-indulgent
The capitalism of International Women’s Day
How freedom and morality are intertwined
How environmental context controls our brain
Escaping from distraction
Twitter rows and the dangers of scientism
Absurdity may be king, but love saves us from it
Not just a lightshow
The two thinkers share a stage at HowTheLightGetsIn
Weil said progress is a myth. Should we listen?
Authentic love requires independence and equality.
Language and the limits of experience
How musical metaphors explain biology
Art and extinction with Francis Bacon
How we killed the narrator, and why we need it back
Emigration and artistic modernism
Finding solace in sound
Is she "Simone-enough"?
The trial of St Nick
Women's corruption and bondage
Does art hold the key to progress?
Making and manipulating crises in the West
Why do we crave dystopia?
How fiction can help us to understand reality
The weaponization of Russian identity
The dangers of the appearance–reality distinction
There is no love without gender equality
Understanding their quest for feminine validation
Children as the supreme object of love
Cultivating your sexual garden with porn
Temptation provides opportunity to exercise virtue
Why don't philosophers ever talk about sex?
Has technology turned love into a transaction?
What if there were a pill for engineering romance?
Why accepting failure might save your relationship
Embracing uncertainty to understand the future
January's opressive perfectionism
Navigating the future with critical cartography
On the value of suffering
How urban design can awaken our sense of play