Every few months, out of curiosity, I red-pill myself. Usually, I start with YouTube. The algorithm is extraordinarily responsive: give a couple of videos a thumbs-up, and your whole feed swerves in a ...

Batchelor’s latest book is “Buddha, Socrates and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times.” There he draws on a different ...

I took a Logic class my freshman year in college and could not then — or now — tell you the difference between a syllogism and a window sill. That confession of logical incompetence begs the question ...

Readers intent on enlightening me often send me books and essays written by them or, less often, others. Now and then one of these offerings grabs my attention before I hit “delete.” A recent example: ...