Sitemap - 2023 - Hopeful Monsters
End-of-Year Self-Congratulatory Gala
One Thousand and One Notes on ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
Your System of Ethics Needs a Line of Retreat
It Turns Out Anger Isn’t Great For Writing Blog Posts
Ethics and the Complexity of Models
The Figurative-to-Abstract Art Pipeline
Dark Age Ahead: A Lukewarm Book Review
Can Our Civilization Build Beautiful Hospitals?
1980s Jane Jacobs on Cities, States, and City-States
A Song of Proto-Industrialization
Two New Ways for the French to Be Smug About Food
You Can't Overuse the Word ‘Friend’
Crazy Science Idea: Tell People Something Is Possible When You Actually Have No Clue
I Wrote Half a Book About Phantom Islands and Then Discovered I Was Scooped Seven Years Ago
French 1790s Disco, and Other Excesses
Please Plagiarize This Blog Post
When the Ugliness of the Problem Sticks to the Solution
The Opposite of Squishy Is Ghostly
My Left Shoulder Blade Is Possessed By a Minor Demon
No But Really, Why Are Flowers Beautiful?
Things I Learned From Ranking 1000 Historical Rulers
Chinese Noodles, Swedish Tacos, and Other Authenticity Puzzles
Somehow I Trust the Flip-Floppers More
Nothing More Powerful Than the Anti-Cultishness Cult
What Will I Find in San Francisco?
Charting a Course of Study in Neuroaesthetics
A Techno-Historical Analogy in Which YOU Are the Hero
Pre-Nostalgia in the Late Pre-AI Era
Scientific Writing Is a Miserable Grind, So Let's Outsource It to AI
Does Weather Affect Mood, And Separately, Does Climate Affect Happiness?
The Inevitable, Awkward Post About Money
Preamble to a Psychofauna Bestiary
All Video Games Are Set in Winter
The Strawman, the Steelman, and the Gold-Plated Man