What Is X? What Are Numbers? | Michael Harris
https://whatisx.thepointmag.com/1827398/11328045-what-are-numbers-michael-harris?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email What does it mean for a number to exist? In the philosophy of mathematics, there are two general camps when it comes to numbers: there are the Platonists—or the…
The Long March – Guest Post – Arielle Gabriel
Snow Mountains & The Death Of One Child, June 1935 after the hell of the Dadu River we approach the Snow Mountains peaks of 15,000 and the loss of both…
Discipline is Destiny: 25 Habits That Will Guarantee You Success
The ancients were fond of an expression: Character is fate. It means that character is deterministic, that who you are determines what you will do. Self-discipline is one of those…
The Midlife Crisis
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/the-midlife-crisis.html This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically…
The Discernible Reality of a “Force of Evil”
by Andrew Bard Schmookler Evil: Lost and Found Over the centuries, for people whose worldview was governed by the religions of Western civilization, it was reasonably straightforward to conceive of…