Anti-growth rhetoric sounds appealing, but it privileges the present over the future.

On MAGA canon and cosplay.

The first episode of The Inner Life of Liberalism podcast.

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Let a thousand mutually suspicious communities bloom.

Speaking with intent to harm trains the speaker in habits of hatred. The cost of online cruelty isn't only to the target.

An early Buddhist text gives us four questions to ask before posting—and most of what we post fails the test.

Two short Buddhist essays from Thanissaro Bhikkhu on karma as feedback loop, identity as inheritance, and intention as a skill you can practice.

Discomfort isn't harm. Treating it as harm burns the finite moral attention we need for the suffering that actually exists.

Teenagers buying CDs aren't making a political statement. They just like CDs.

After 101 episodes, it's time to move on to new projects.

Google's music-making AI makes songs. I just can't figure out why anyone would listen to them.

The practices that make your life better are the same ones that sustain a free society. It's time liberalism took that seriously.

Some philosophy works by proving a conclusion. Some works by making something visible you couldn't see before. Here's why the distinction matters.

A podcast conversation.

Tabletop RPGs are story engines. Why would you want to tell only one kind of story?

It's okay to feel despair in the moment. But it's dumb to insist we've already lost.

Cognitive decline and a curated information environment means Trump has no idea what's happening in the world outside his head.

America’s political divide is between neighborliness and neighborhood pariahs, and neighborliness is winning.

A brief pause for the next big thing.