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convocation and vanity
and why I continue to go
False Dichotomist
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One more time, without feeling
another shot at understanding meaning without purpose
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baristas I have loved
I was asked “Where do you feel most at home,” and what came into my mind (and then out of my mouth) was a cafe that I think I’ve only been to once, on a grey day in Paris twenty years ago, where I sat at a bench facing
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what my son has actually learned from sports
you can't work hard enough to become the coach's son
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comics and poetry
learning how to read and why time isn’t spent
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good and bad rationalization
ethics for assholes, part 4
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ethics for assholes, part 3
why ethics can't be too hard
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ethics for assholes, part 2
high standards and reasoning
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ethics for assholes
part 1, on rational reconstruction
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are bad people incompetent?
thinking about Robert Moses
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ode to material things
my meaningful, purposeless life
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how to regret
I just finished reading Shubeik Lubeik, a graphic novel from the Egyptian writer and artist Deena Mohamed. It’s a wonderful imagining of a modern Egypt in which wishes are bought, sold, regulated, and used. One of my favorite parts of the book focuses on a regret, on undoing the