Mr. Nietzsche Goes to Washington As Democracy Drowns in Existential Dread
I. Introduction: Nietzsche Watches Democracy and Asks for a Refund If Nietzsche were alive today, he’d be chain-smoking outside a Capitol Hill wine bar, muttering “decadence” every time someone says “engagement metrics,” and wondering why... Read More
On “Coming Out”
Coming out is overrated. The concept. The expectation. It reeks of compulsory heteronormativity and I don’t like it one bit. For the uninitiated, compulsory heteronormativity (or “comphet”) is a term coined by Adrienne Rich to... Read More
The Age of Manufactured Awe: Can Wonder Survive in a Synthetic World?
When I first started writing, I thought the job was to sound certain. I thought that if I arranged my sentences neatly enough, if every paragraph landed perfectly and every metaphor shimmered just right then... Read More
Our A.I. Alignment Imperative: Creating a Future Worth Sharing
This article was written with the support of advanced AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini. It was first published in September 2025 at Academia.edu, LinkedIn.com, and Medium.com. Preface We stand at a... Read More
Living Without Emotional Skin: What It Means to Have Borderline Personality Disorder At 19, I decided to break the silence around my diagnosis. This is my story.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that shapes how people feel, respond to others and build relationships. It isn’t a one-off occurrence like the flu, but a long-term pattern that defines the daily... Read More
The New Eugenics: Biohacking, Fertility Startups, and the Future of Choice From Empowerment to Exclusion
When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the early 20th century, pseudoscientific charts measuring skulls, the language of “fitness” used to justify violence... Read More
Hearts on the Run (or How Parasites Gave Us Love)
We often think of love as a spiritual, emotional or relationship good. Something deeply human, irreducible and perhaps even transcendent. Yet there is a credible evolutionary account that suggests love may not be a cosmic... Read More
