Why Pessimism Deserves A Fair Chance
And why are you firmly, so solemnly convinced that only the normal and the positive, in short, that only well being, is profitable for man? Is reason not perhaps mistaken…
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We Contain Multitudes: A Review of “The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity” by Toby Ord
Photo by Joseph Chan Imagine the last group of humans, a few billion or trillion years from now. Let’s imagine two different versions of this group, representing two different outcomes for…
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Robert D. Kaplan, Covid-19 and the Anarchy that Never Came
Photo by Drew Hays Robert D. Kaplan’s February 1994 Atlantic article “The Coming Anarchy” was one of the most influential articles of the years immediately following the Cold War. The subtitle…
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Negativity and the Need for Optimism
Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.—Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny In many ways, the world…
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