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  • Science in a World Built for Alchemy

    Science in a World Built for Alchemy0

    I like to think of myself as a logician. A rational, critical thinker ready to discard any idea when new information presents itself. Behind the facade though, there was always a passing interest in the arts. Literature in particular, but I still remember the first time I sat in a room with an orchestra playing.

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  • Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions

    Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions0

    For centuries, philosophers have been using moral intuitions to reason about ethics. Today, some scientists think they’ve found a way to use psychology and neuroscience to undermine many of these intuitions and advance better moral arguments of their own. If these scientists are right, philosophers need to leave the armchair and head to the lab

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  • Science Has a Major Fraud Problem. Here’s Why Government Funding Is the Likely Culprit

    Science Has a Major Fraud Problem. Here’s Why Government Funding Is the Likely Culprit4

    President Biden’s 2024 budget includes over $210 billion directed toward federal research and development, an approximately $9 billion increase from 2023 funding. That might not sound particularly bad—after all, who doesn’t like science and innovation? But, although seemingly noble, the billions pumped into the US government’s National Science Foundation don’t always translate into finding cures for

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  • Science Fiction: Why So Many Intellectuals Despise It

    Science Fiction: Why So Many Intellectuals Despise It0

    Do you want to rule a world? Blow apart a sun? Test a theory of community? Explore the very depths of depravity? End slavery and misery? Destroy all empires? It is possible. . . At least in the imagination. “The proper study of man is everything. The proper study of man as artist is everything

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  • Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom

    Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom1

    A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It is not a systematic treatise. It’s more of a series of observations about huge problems that vexed those times and ours. Many are informed by economics. Some by history. Some by sociology and culture. Schumpeter’s outlook

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  • Schopenhauer’s 7 Pieces of Advice for Readers

    Schopenhauer’s 7 Pieces of Advice for Readers3

    In the news, we often hear distressing statistics about how few books Americans read in a given year. As a result, we tend to be ecstatic if people simply read at all. But intellectual growth requires more than that; it requires that one becomes not only a reader, but a mature reader. In his famous

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