Archive - Falltide

How to Ruin Your Civilization

Charlie Munger on ignorant legislatures and the morality of the cash register

Feb 17 •

January 2025

Beyond the Limits of Human Reason

On Benjamín Labatut’s “The MANIAC”

Jan 23 •

December 2024

The Tragic Philosophy of the Intelligence Age

On Oswald Spengler's "Man and Technics"

Dec 18, 2024 •

September 2024

April 2024

Evil Is Nothing

A philosopher sentenced to a gruesome death wrestles with the nature of good and evil. On Boethius’ “Consolation of Philosophy.”

Apr 19, 2024 •

March 2024

There Are No Dangerous Thoughts, Thinking Itself Is Dangerous

Hannah Arendt on the difference between intellect and reason

Mar 7, 2024 •

February 2024

And Then Good Deeds Are Your Enemies

On Machiavelli's "The Prince"

Feb 1, 2024 •

January 2024

The True Meaning of Crime and Punishment

“Am I a trembling wretch, or do I have the right?”

Jan 19, 2024 •

December 2023

Censorship and Conformity

“But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”

Dec 19, 2023 •

November 2023

Affected Altruism

On Michael Lewis's portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried in “Going Infinite.”

Nov 18, 2023 •

September 2023

A Simultaneous Recession of Both Freedom and Authority

Both the liberals and the conservatives claim that the other side is moving us towards totalitarianism. They are both right.

Sep 16, 2023 •

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