Thinking Out Aloud

The inability to see oneself is a core element of much modern moralising We live in a time of a striking pattern. In many ways, societies ar...

Typically, the child-rearing not done by parents is done by peers. Source . Fatherhood, being (unlike biological paternity) a socially-const...

Good versus evil is not a universal religious or moral framing I have a wide range of interests, many of them historical. One of the YouYube...

Ideologies come and go. It is the social dynamics that matter. Source : In one of his fun and informed alternative history videos, the opera...

Systematic misuse of the concept of oppression disorders moral and analytical judgement. Afghan women in different decades Source : I was re...

Israel-Palestine is the third rail of online commentary. It brings out all the crazies. Nevertheless, it is worth noting an overlooked struc...

Source . One of the fundamental, persistent, claims of wisdom traditions is that to be wise one must seek to not deceive oneself. That unspa...

Source . The Silence of the Lambs is almost 30 years old. But it is one of those classic films that has entered the general culture so that...

Source . The US is having a very strange election, at so many levels. By all the indicators of enthusiasm, President Trump is way ahead of V...