Is morality relative? • And if so to what extent

A defence of morality as respect for a social contract • The absence of absolute moral truths does not mean that "anything is permitted"

Morality works without absolute moral truths • Replacing theories of the Good and the Right with a theory of the Seemly

No, religion isn't required for morality • Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines

Morality without skyhooks • Shedding light on what morality is and how it works

Does the arc of history bend towards democracy? • Why the world became more democratic, and whether it will continue

What are we really doing on social media? • The motives and strategies that shape our online presence

Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one? • AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment

Power balance and ideology • Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing

The truth about sport • Why we really care about it

Friendship politics • Everything you have always wanted to know about friendship

Why science is politically disruptive • With a few examples

Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side • The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments

What are the chances you’re right about everything? • The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles

Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters? • Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left

Why has the left gentrified? • How shifting social realities and ideological crises reshaped the left

The gentrification of the left • And the popularisation of the right in Western countries

Why and how political ideas matter • Political ideologies both reflect the world and help shape it

Dystopia is closer than you think • We take our usual way of life too much for granted

Why Mearsheimer is wrong • A criticism of Mershmeier "great power politics": The misjudgement of too little realism

The entropy of victory • Why empires crumble, why revolutions eat their own children, and why there will always be conflicts in office politics

Why we so often fail to work together • The unescapable reality of intracoalitional entropy