You are ugly and grossly overweight. Consider how you feel after reading that. Keep that feeling to hand for the moment. That sentence is an insult, and I shouldn’t have written it, due to the feeling ...

Articles Meaning & Morality in Modernity Andrew Brower Latz traces two core problems for the modern mind.. In Sam Lipsyte’s satirical novel The Ask, set in contemporary New York, the protagonist says, ...

Fiction The Death of Pythagoras Bruce Pennington tells us how Pythagoras became a has-bean, while another Bruce Pennington drew the portraits…. Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative ...

Articles Socratic Humility Glenn Rawson on humility versus arrogance in the Socratic method of philosophy. “Gentlemen of Athens, I am far from making a defence now on my own behalf, as you might think ...

Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is The Truman Show. Every ...

Terri Murray tells us about a Hollywood hero beyond good and evil. If Hollywood genre movies can be depended upon to deliver one thing, it is a good hero pitted against an evil foe. Simplistic though ...

Articles Robert Pirsig & His Metaphysics of Quality Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.. In 1967, ...

Articles The Last Messiah The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933.Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.. One night in ...

Shakespeare never met Wittgenstein, Russell, or Ryle, and one wonders what a conversation between them would have been like. “What’s in a name, you ask?” Wittgenstein might answer “A riddle of symbols ...

The future of humanity is speculative, and so I’ll apprehend it more with hope than knowledge. Our first two hopes are that we do not annihilate our species with global biological or nuclear warfare, ...

It is clearly internet shopping, franchised fast food and surgically-enhanced boobs. No, this is not true. I think the only answer is to strip back every layer of the physical world, every learnt ...

Question of the Month How Will Humanity End? Each answer below receives a book. Apologies to the many entrants not included. The question can be thought of in at least two different ways: (1) How will ...