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Year in Review 2025
An exercise in vanity since 2022: I post links to my public writing from the previous year, along with some favourite Substack posts and a preview of…
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Tractatus Logico-Calceatus
1. The world is the totality of socks, not shoes. 1.1. “I remember one time when Wittgenstein was mentioning Nietzsche’s remark: ‘We—i. e…
Dec 27, 2025
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Reader's Digest: Best Books
I did more reading than writing this year—at least, so I’m tempted to say; but as I realize mid-sentence, I don’t know what that means. What common…
Dec 20, 2025
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Who wants to live forever?
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How Do You Think?
Nov 15, 2025
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Horse Whispering
Jul 12, 2025
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‘it is a person’s privilege to go to hell’
Nov 1, 2025
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Sep 6, 2025
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Jan 20, 2024
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This post is the third in an accidental mini-series on creativity, which started out derivative, took a turn through the need for a certain stupidity…
Dec 13, 2025
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An Essential Stupidity
I discovered William Kentridge by erroneous inference and epistemic luck. Memory said: “This name has come up more than once in recent weeks, in venues…
Nov 29, 2025
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Reader's Digest: November 22, 2025
How to read as the future falls apart—or is slowly shredded and sold for parts, cruelly, senselessly, not even profitably, in the end? You could turn to…
Nov 22, 2025
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How Do You Think?
In lieu of a thesis, a question for readers, inspired—appropriately, as you’ll see—by an essay published in the TLS. The literary scholar Daniel Karlin…
Nov 15, 2025
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Reader's Digest: November 8, 2025
“Who reviews the reviewers?”—a question answered by two recent essays in the New York Review of Books. The first, by Jed Perl, takes in a collection of…
Nov 8, 2025
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‘it is a person’s privilege to go to hell’
Until recently, I knew exactly one story about Alice Ambrose, to whom (along with Francis Skinner), Ludwig Wittgenstein dictated what would come to be…
Nov 1, 2025
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Viewer's Digest: October 25, 2025
My wife has been telling me I need to see Thornton Wilder’s Our Town ever since I got interested, a decade ago, in philosophical puzzles about the…
Oct 25, 2025
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Joy in the Morning
A mantra for the philosophy of self-help: feeling happy is not the same as living well. Philosophers make the case with “experience machines” that offer…
Oct 18, 2025
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Reader's Digest: October 11, 2025
Ian Penman is unmissable on the “conundrum” of Brian Eno: "impish disruptor and happy polymath, he can also be a bit of a tech prig lecturing us from on…
Oct 11, 2025
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