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Would You Rather Be Just, or Only Seem So?
- Featured, Philosophy
- September 28, 2026






Last week, I bought an item at the store, swiped my card, and then signed my name on the electronic notepad at the register. But while such an occasion is a regular occurrence, I came away with a unique experience: my electronic signature actually looked normal. The thought passed through my mind that technology must
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In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Mara Keisling, head of the National Center for Transgender Equality, anticipated his hostility. She declared that trans people would fight for their rights – and that “Over the last two decades, we have made faster progress than any movement in American history”. That’s probably right. Faster
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Mending Wall, the endearing 1914 poem by Robert Frost, offers important lessons about economics and cooperation. While the poem contains lessons about balancing tolerance and acceptance, modernity and tradition, and perhaps the efficacy of national borders, it remains open to interpretation. The surface-level message, repeated twice in the poem, is that “good fences make good neighbors,” which
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In a recent piece for the Guardian, Bernie Sanders protests the dehumanizing exploitation of workers currently employed by Disneyland, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. What starts as a few heart-throbbing anecdotes about individuals struggling to make ends meet readily segues into the usual narrative blending anti-capitalist banalities with mishandled economic data.
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Teenage eco-evangelist Greta Thunberg, who has gone on school-strike to force politicians to ‘panic’ about ‘climate change,’ has addressed the House of Commons and even met the Pope, has proved such a hit among like-minded individuals that she is regarded as a living saint. Environmentalism is fast becoming a religion, and there is even more
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For centuries up to and including the 20th, Europe seemed the central pivot of world history. Then came the Great Civil War of the West, our Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945), where all of the great European powers—Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia—along with almost all of the rest, fought some of history’s greatest battles. Result: Europe’s
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