The Positive Case for Cruelty
Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman
Lost in tragedy
I'm not angry at you humanity, I'm just disappointed
Friendships without the pressure
Self-control is strategy, not willpower
How historians can do without truth
Why you can't paraphrase a poem
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.
Escaping suffering and representation
Ineffability and incarnation
"Artists have no actual power"
Our beliefs about beauty don't match our actions
How Dickinson’s poems reveal the depths of the self
On the ecology of images
Beckett, Bowie, and how to reframe reality
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
What classical philosophy can teach us about love
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
The hidden costs of collective attention
How to fill the void of the postmodern age
How psychedelics increase openness to reality
Studying religion from the outside in
Reality and the self are perpetually incomplete
Time is up for the unified Self
William Blake and the apostles of the apocalypse