what it says on the box. do you know anyone who could be described as a tyrant?

how do you know you're not living in a simulation? is that even a real question?

Exactly when SHOULD you punch a Nazi...?

 What lurks at the heart of the innovation-obsessed life-hacker mentality, epitomised by the one and only Tim Ferriss? great dangers await...

We use the genocide in Aleppo as lens into how we can go back to having constructive moral and ethical disagreements again

How do we explain what happens when huge numbers of people ought to know better, but somehow don't? 

The question is not whether to call someone stupid or evil; it's whether they *really are* stupid or evil. 

Hello again, or for the first time. Getting re-aquainted, and how to re-adjust your mind for the era of Trump, and well beyond that. 

reflections from the autumn of occupy, mixed feelings and all. 

the cause of, and solution to, all problems.