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Talking About Moral Realism, God, and Factory Farming With Spencer Case

A recording from Bentham's Bulldog's live video

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Host a University Effective Altruism Meeting

The case for doing so is very decisive

Why I’m Not Catholic

Should I convert to Catholicism because of all the Miracles?

Ghent University’s Disgrace

Nathan Cofnas has been suspended for speaking the truth

I Watched the Candace Owens Andrew Wilson Debate For Some Reason

It was totally deranged

Why I’m Staying Out of Responding to Scott Alexander’s Recent Piece

A response to Scott Alexander’s recent piece

The Most Disturbing Book I Have Ever Read

And what it tells us

Debating the Problem of Evil With Both Sides Brigade

A recording from Bentham's Bulldog's live video

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Was the Jason Arday Coverage Unreasonable?

Why this wasn't just an unfair pile-on

Things Vegans Should Stop Saying

Because they're wrong or unproductive

All Dogs go to Heaven

The issue is pretty straightforward

Debating Richard Yetter Chappell About God

In written form

Internet Cancel Mobs

They seem powerful when coming for knitters who committed some convoluted and dubious alleged microaggression but totally impotent when coming for more controversial figures

Are Paywalls Good?

Or are they bad?

The Core Bentham's Bulldog Reader

The articles I've written categorized by subject

The Fall of Manne

Substack's highest-paid academic philosopher is extremely wrong

Meat Eating Discussions Should Basically Only Be About Factory Farming

In the real world, it's all foie gras and veal

Very Good Opportunity to Start an Animal Charity

Ambitious Impact is incubating new animal charities

Inconsistent Moralists

Mostly against the charge of moralism

How Republicans Might Lose Montana

And why Democrats should want there to be no Democratic Montana Senate candidate

URGENT: Last Minute Save Our Bacon Action

Critical week for preventing the systematic destruction of state animal welfare laws

Alan Hajek's Destruction of Finite Frequentism

Hajek v. Von Mises

The View From Beyond Time

What would those in the far future think?

Proofs That P Redux

A sequel

Might Intense Agony Be Widespread?

Intense pain may be ubiquitous in the animal kingdom

The Best Things I've Read Recently

On EA, religion, philosophy, and miscellaneous

Contra "Why I'm An Atheist"

An atheist substacker wrote a very good piece laying out the case for atheism. Here's why I don't agree.

Ideological Derangement

How politics makes us crazy

The Extremely Simple Explanation of the Self-Indication Assumption

Why SIA doesn't depend on any theory of personal identity and is correct