This week, I cried reading a philosophy book. I can’t remember the last time that happened. In The Origin of Philosophy , Spanish...

philosophy is not just about questions, concepts, and arguments, but is also about idioms —Raymond Geuss I’ve been meaning to write some...

Recently I’ve started thinking more about the political role of experts in society. Who counts as an expert anyway? We expect a lot from...

It starts, like all psychology papers, with a competitor for the most boringest sentence ever: One of the essential insights from...

I don’t love talk of ‘smart’ or ‘high IQ’ basketball. I got to coach a youth basketball team recently, and it was awesome. For a lot of...

Like most bestsellers, Antifragile takes one interesting idea and stretches it like taffy. As Taleb admits, “I’ve had only one master...

Quick—name a living philosopher. (Don’t say Ricky Mouser just because you’re on my website.) Unless you already have a degree in...