The Positive Case for Cruelty
Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman
Our beliefs about beauty don't match our actions
Studying religion from the outside in
Reality and the self are perpetually incomplete
Time is up for the unified Self
How Dickinson’s poems reveal the depths of the self
On the ecology of images
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.
Beckett, Bowie, and how to reframe reality
The allure of evil on-screen
Memoirs and therapy are not self-indulgent
How freedom and morality are intertwined
Language and the limits of experience
How musical metaphors explain biology
How poetry captures the difficulty of reality
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
We are trapped in our stories of love
Lacan and Deleuze on the nature of love
An interview with Yasmin Benoit
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?
William Blake and the apostles of the apocalypse
Plato's marathon to morality
The tribalism of non-partisans
When negativity is a vehicle for status
Where did all the facts go?
The dark side of self-diagnosis