29 May , 2026

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Philosophy

4 Stories, Updated May 26

Men keep reading Nietzsche wrong. Here’s my version.

April 24, 2026 No Comments

“Thiel noted in a speech at a New Criterion gala in 2023 that there are two schools of Nietzschean thought operating on the American right. One “boils down to a strong-man argument—think of Bronze Age Pervert and other internet types—that says, well, the West may in fact be chauvinist, racist, sexist, and all the other [...]

Why Should I Trust Carl Schmitt on Power? He Wasn’t Even Good at Being a Nazi.

May 25, 2026 No Comments

There are a lot of things that I disagree with about the philosophy of Carl Schmitt, a very in-vogue thinker I read as a tortured Christian who blamed everyone else for his problems, and whose work survives mostly as philosophy for men who seek to control other men and want a philosophical justification.

But [...]

Girard was wrong. Mimesis does not require rivalry. Done right, it can be a force for good.

May 26, 2026 No Comments

Rene Girard's most famous idea is mimetic desire: the idea that humans don't come up with their own desires so much as we learn what to reach for watching others reach. It's not always the case, but there's more truth to it than we'd like to admit.

His follow-up claim is [...]

Remember Eichmann in Jerusalem: Evil Does Not Always Look Evil

May 25, 2026 No Comments

"Evil comes from a failure to think." - Hannah Arendt

Although The Origins of Totalitarianism was Arendt's first influential work, Eichmann in Jerusalem may be her most enduring legacy. In 1961 she traveled to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official who had organized the mass deportation of [...]