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Mailbag: Lynching and Vigilante Justice

The Tyrannies of Abstractions

"Sin" is a synonym for "Finitude"

The Violence We Carry

Political violence is especially bad when done in your name

Regime Change Is Built In To Liberalism

After Hyperpolitics

Why is gratitude so challenging?

Four thought experiments on the limits of "liberation"

The Messy Human Middle

Liberalism after Despair

The Center Must Hold

My Revolutionary Exodus

The horror of success and serenity

It's Crime AND Punishment, not Crime THEN Punishment

Righteous Misery is the Devil

The Substance, like so many things, is about Death

8 1/2 Made Me Feel Deeply Seen As A Liar

A really-quick intro to Wittgenstein

The Sublime Object of Hatred

Non-Monogamy as "Internalized Capitalism"

A brief survey of modern human misery

In Search Of Our Better Selves: Part 1

One, maybe two cheers for liberal democracy

After Polyamory

A quick critical look at post-Christian Righteousness

'Exploitation' vs 'Oppression'

Please learn how to live with people who hate your guts

Sweeney Todd as Belated Macbeth

Dostoevsky's Anti-Christ

A terribly brief look at how I came to appreciate markets

The one and only time I've done standup

Being human is hard - being together is harder

One Last Helping of Disco Spaghetti

Sin Consciousness is not God Consciousness

Reflections on Adulthood with a Very Old Friend

What do we mean when we say that something is dying?

Anti-Heroism, Post-Heroism

Outrage Porn As A Cheap Luxury

The Masculine Urge to Surpass Shakespeare

After half a decade of therapy

Loving yourself is Shrexy as hell