The Good Apprentice
Real independence of mind can be won only by a sustained process of submission to authority.
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AI sycophancy is calibrated to satisfy a desire that no GLP-1 can moderate.
The Man Who Killed God
by
Ed Simon
Posted on August 25, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: Die Wilde Jagd (The Wild Hunt), c. 1889, by Franz von Stuck (1863–1928), Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; public domain, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
More than even a poet, Nietzsche was a prophet—a jaundiced, nihilistic, and cracked prophet, but a prophet nonetheless.
The Delusion Machine
On His Existential Way
by
James Como
Posted on August 12, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration: Søren Kierkegaard, c.1840, public domain; C.S. Lewis, 1951, Alamy.
Not Lewis the existentialist, but Lewis existentially, like Kierkegaard as much a psychologist as a theologian.
When the Parrot Talks Back, Part Two
Posted on August 6, 2025
in THR Web Features
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