Sam WolfeThe Technologist’s StoneA peculiar kind of cognitive dissonance grips most people who talk about death. On one hand, death is awful: It is the most awful fate that…Jun 30, 2017Jun 30, 2017
Sam WolfeRise of the Anti-Intellectual IntellectualA year before the 2016 presidential election, cartoonist and amateur pundit Scott Adams, creator of the Kafkaesque corporate satire…Jun 29, 2017Jun 29, 2017
Sam WolfeNerds and Fascism?In 2015, French author Michel Houellebecq published Submission, a reactionary satire of the modern Western man. The novel depicts a…Jun 27, 20171Jun 27, 20171
Sam WolfeSartre and Video GamesI have been reading excerpts of Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel Nausea over the last week, initially for a class and subsequently because I found…Jun 26, 2017Jun 26, 2017