The Positive Case for Cruelty
Iain McGilchrist vs Scott Barry Kaufman
Why you can't paraphrase a poem
The hidden costs of collective attention
Escaping suffering and representation
How to fill the void of the postmodern age
How psychedelics increase openness to reality
What classical philosophy can teach us about love
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.
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
The allure of evil on-screen
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
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
Plato's marathon to morality
The tribalism of non-partisans