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“Can prediction markets shake the hedonistic monkey from their back?”
 • Rufus Knuppel
In Defense of the Personal Essay
"If everyone’s a critic, no one’s out there living."
 • Everett Yum
Becoming Shrimp-Pilled
“If sentience is what matters…humans are not the center of the moral universe.”
 • Bentham's Bulldog
Some Absolutely Original Thing
“How is the English novel faring today? Has it degenerated to the point where the only options are imitation or eccentricity?”
 • Sagar Castleman
Against the Confessional Essay
“Left unrestrained in pursuit of simulated intimacy, the confessional essay flees from both the category of art and the act of writing itself.”
 • Owen Yingling
Nietzsche in Friendship
“I slowly realized that aspiring to equality with a person like this made trust impossible.”
 • Josie Barboriak
The Lesson of Charlie Kirk
“Fear can cow us into silence. Regardless of the assassin’s motive, that is what Kirk’s assassination has the potential to do."
 • John Coleman
We Ate the Gods
“Hunger is not a glitch of modernity but a recurring human condition — a tide that recedes and returns, reshaping the shore each time.”
 • toni ꩜
Living Well
“You might be able to live forever, but what if the world becomes uninhabitable in your hundredth year of feeling biologically eighteen?”
 • Arden Yum
The Loss of Reciprocity
"There used to be an expectation that friendship meant we would help one another."
 • Clare Ashcraft
Those Halcyon Days
"What can possibly explain the triumph of trauma in modern discourse?”
 • Dylan Partner
In Need of Daydreams
"Time spent with oneself is never time wasted."
 • Tessa Augsberger
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