“Democracy” Is what You Get When Idiots Vote

“You know, gang, there is only one person who has the answer to all our problems, social, political ecological, cultural … More

Species Questions

The first question for modern humanity is this: why do toasters include a setting of “10”? Is there a human … More

How We “Feel” More Important Than What Actually Happens

Helen MacDonald, a feted a naturalist writer and academic, is concerned, as she writes in a short review of Elizabeth … More

FUTILISTS: SOCIETY’S FIRST DESPONDERS”

Before we start, two representations: “I MUST BE THE ONLY MACARTHUR GENIUS AWARD GRANTEE THAT HAS TO KEEP DOING THIS” … More

Of Course We Were Warned

Some of us are more in tune with the innumerable large-scale factors that go into the entity we can call … More

2019 IFN NIHILIST BOOK AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED

The Institut fr. Nihilism (IFN) has announced the winner of its annual Nihilism Book Award for 2019: Nicholas P. Money, … More

Happy Extinction!

That’s the bumper sticker for the mounting triumph of nihilism – a small oval, with these words in green in … More

Franzen Now Public Nihilist Enemy #1 – Though He is Novice Semi-Nihilist at Best

Oh boy, there’s a donnyfuffle around “rich, white, comfortable” marginally famous fictionist Jonathan Franzen’s “peevish” “navel-gazing” attempt at climate truth-telling … More

Two Sharks

BIG SHARK: Listen, I’ve looked at the way we’re going, and it doesn’t look good. We’re not going to make … More

Never Trust a TED-Talker: Rutger Bregman’s “Utopia for Realists”

Another sort-of leftist makes the bestseller list: Dutch journalist/academic/TEDtalker Rutger Bregman’s breezy, pop-sci “Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build … More