"An illusion will only make you happy if you’re fully under its spell, and blissfully unaware of it."

"According to scholars like Ara Norenzayan and Joe Henrich, belief in moralizing Big Gods has fostered pro-sociality a…"

"Moreover, in evolutionary accounts of religion there’s always a flipside to pro-sociality: being friendly to “us” als…"

"Is such a life of voluntary delusion really what you should want? Even if you don’t have any objections against untru…"

"Rousseau’s first Discourse is one of the earliest instances of something that would come to accompany modernity where…"

"Although over the past decades leftists have been more creative in inventing ever more novel ways of denouncing Weste…"

"There is also a rich tradition of right-wing thinkers in the West cozying up to foreign dictators, theocrats, and mil…"

"Personally, I think the Western penchant for vilifying our own civilisation has a more straightforward explanation: o…"

"Nowhere else in the world, and at no other previous time in history, have people ever had so much freedom to bite the…"

"Even after the Cold War ended and most of the world’s communist regimes collapsed, biting the nourishing hand of indu…"