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The Banality of Hot Takes, or Why Public Opinion Has Become a Moral Category Error
We now treat the demand for an instant verdict as a moral obligation, and the verdict itself as proof of virtue. What does it do to thinking when judgment becomes a spectator sport?
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The Machine That Judges You
Algorithms now decide who gets a loan, an interview, or a second chance. We never agreed to their jurisprudence, yet we live under it. What would a fair machine even look like?
Philosophy
Nostalgia Is a Form of Forgetting
The past we mourn was never quite the past that was. Nostalgia smooths the violence out of memory, and the nostalgia industry charges admission to the edited version.
Philosophy
The Right to Be Unproductive
Somewhere along the way, rest became a tool for working harder later. A defense of idleness as a human good, not a performance-recovery protocol.
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The Machine That Judges YouCredit scores, hiring screens, insurance tiers. Judgments once made by fallible humans, with appeals and grudges, are now made by systems nobody can interrogate. The philosophy of punishment never caught up with the speed of the verdict.
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Against Self-Improvement
The self-improvement industry runs on a simple trick: make you feel unfinished, then sell you the completion. But the self was never a project with a deadline.
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On Being Wrong in Public
Changing your mind used to be called learning. Now it is called weakness, until the moment it is called a scandal. A case for making error a public virtue again.
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What Sin Ambages Is, and Is Not
Our editorial stance in one page: what we publish, what we refuse, and why a philosophy magazine should be allowed to have opinions.
The editorial stance
The forbidden question is usually the only one worth asking. We ask it in public, in good faith, and with the understanding that answers are offers, not verdicts.