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Grim Tidings
The cosmic secrets of godlessness all wrapped up by a fellow with a Ph.D. writing on the internet
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Even Scientists are Trapped by their Intuitions
Even Scientists are Trapped by their Intuitions
To social mammals like us, mindless physicality may be inexplicable
Benjamin Cain
Dec 4
Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age?
Should We Psychoanalyze the Mystics of the Axial Age?
Assessing Bard’s and Söderqvist’s Lacanian screed in “Process and Event”
Benjamin Cain
Nov 30
The Laws of War are Feats of Orwellian Gaslighting
The Laws of War are Feats of Orwellian Gaslighting
The clash between the international acceptance of war, and the domestic outlawing of murder
Benjamin Cain
Nov 29
God or Monstrous Nature? The Mother of All Dichotomies
God or Monstrous Nature? The Mother of All Dichotomies
And the relative triviality of most preoccupations
Benjamin Cain
Nov 27
The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel
The Irony of Jewish Fundamentalism in Modern Israel
And the liberal’s burden of distinguishing Israel from its Islamist neighbours
Benjamin Cain
Nov 24
Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations
Legal Fictions and Israel’s Status at the United Nations
War’s strange legality, and the UN’s call for a truce in Israel’s war with Hamas
Benjamin Cain
Nov 22
The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East
The Clash between Medievalism and Modernity in the Middle East
Why Israel will never be at peace until the Muslim world is modernized
Benjamin Cain
Nov 9
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The Abyss That’s Engulfing Western Philosophy
The Abyss That’s Engulfing Western Philosophy
And a call for honour in the clash between scientific and literary philosophical traditions
Benjamin Cain
Nov 6
Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?
Is Israel Blaming All Palestinians for Hamas’s Terrorism?
The brutality of war in the tribal Middle East
Benjamin Cain
Nov 3
Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews
Reckoning with the Muslim World’s Loathing of Israeli Jews
The key imbalances that explain the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Benjamin Cain
Oct 26
You’re either Free and Alienated or Enslaved to Physics or Society
You’re either Free and Alienated or Enslaved to Physics or Society
All living things are withdrawn from nature, but some people know why that freedom is a blessing and a curse
Benjamin Cain
Oct 25
Can We Submit to Nature’s Carbon’s Cycle?
Can We Submit to Nature’s Carbon’s Cycle?
How progress begins with revulsion for the inhumanity of wild places
Benjamin Cain
Oct 23
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