A Thousand Essays

  1. Deutsch, D. (1994). The Evolution of Culture.
  2. Orwell, G. (1946). Politics and the English Language.
  3. Burman, J. (2012). The misunderstanding of memes: Biography of an unscientific object, 1976–1999.
  4. Thoreau, H. (1849). On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
  5. Sontag, S. (1964). Against Interpretation.
  6. Barthes, R. (1967). The Death of the Author. (Heath, S., Trans.)
  7. Poe, E. (1846). The Philosophy of Composition.
  8. Borges, J. (1942). The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. (Fitzgerald, W., Trans.)
  9. Foucault, M. (1982). The Subject and Power.
  10. Derrida, J. (1966). Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences. (Bass, A., Trans.)
  11. Vonnegut, K. (1985). How to Write with Style.
  12. Baudrillard, J. (1983). The Ecstacy of Communication. (Johnston, J., Trans.)
  13. Benjamin, W. (1936). The Storyteller. (Zohn, H., Trans.)
  14. Lyotard, J. (1984). The Sublime and the Avant-garde. (Liebmann, L., Trans.)
  15. Flexner, A. (1939). The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.
  16. Didion, J. (1961). On Self-Respect.
  17. Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. (Joughin, M., Trans.)
  18. Fitzgerald, F. (1936). The Crack-Up.
  19. Anzaldúa, G. (1987). How to Tame a Wild Tongue.
  20. Haldane, J. (1926). On Being the Right Size.
  21. Wilde, O. (1889). The Decay of Lying.
  22. Grice, H. (1975). Logic and Conversation.
  23. Russell, B. (1905). On Denoting.
  24. Gettier, E. (1963). Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?.
  25. Chesterton, G. (1905). A Defence of Heraldry.
  26. Emerson, R. (1841). Self-Reliance.
  27. Smith, Z. (2007). Fail Better.
  28. Durant, W., & Durant, A. (1968). Is Progress Real?.
  29. Calvino, I. (1986). Why Read the Classics?. (Creagh, P., Trans.)
  30. Freeman, J. (1972). The Tyranny of Structurelessness.
  31. Strawson, G. (2004). Against Narrativity.
  32. Dennett, D. (1992). The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity.
  33. Behrendt, K. (2010). Scraping Down the Past: Memory and Amnesia in W. G. Sebald's Anti-narrative.
  34. Chomsky, N. (2007). Of Minds and Language.
  35. Kripke, S. (1979). A Puzzle about Belief.
  36. Hayek, F. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society.
  37. Alexander, S. (2014). Meditations on Moloch.
  38. Einstein, A. (1949). Why Socialism?.
  39. Kapp, K. (1939). Economic Regulation and Economic Planning.
  40. Asimov, I. (1989). The Relativity of Wrong.
  41. Feyerabend, P. (1975). How to Defend Society Against Science.
  42. Popper, K. (1963). Science as Falsification.
  43. James, W. (1907). Pragmatism's Conception of Truth.
  44. Lewis, D. (2001). Forget About the 'Correspondence Theory of Truth'.
  45. Heidegger, M. (1977). The Question Concerning Technology. (Lovitt, W., Trans.)
  46. Metcalf, R. (1991). Art and the Saving Power in Late Heidegger.
  47. Nietzsche, F. (1874). On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense. (Haussmann, W., Trans.)
  48. Quine, W. (1961). Two Dogmas of Empiricism.
  49. Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.
  50. Lorde, A. (1984). The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.
  51. Latour, B. (2004). Why has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern.
  52. Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
  53. Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). The Extended Mind.
  54. Nagel, T. (1974). What is It Like to Be a Bat?.
  55. Searle, J. (1980). Minds, Brains, and Programs.
  56. Jackson, F. (1982). Epiphenomenal Qualia.
  57. Churchland, P. (1996). The Hornswoggle Problem.
  58. Schopenhauer, A. (1851). On Thinking for Oneself. (Janaway, C., Trans.)
  59. Montaigne, M. (1595). On Solitude. (Cotton, C., Trans.)
  60. Kant, I. (1784). What is Enlightenment?. (Humphrey, T., Trans.)
  61. Anderson, E. (2001). A Comment on Amartya Sen's Contributions to Philosophy and Economics.
  62. Harsanyi, J. (1975). Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory.
  63. Cohen, G. (1997). Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice.
  64. Sen, A. (2006). What Do We Want From a Theory of Justice?.
  65. Whitehead, A. (1929). The Aims of Education.
  66. Barthelme, D. (1997). Not Knowing.
  67. Eco, U. (1989). The Poetics of the Open Work. (Cancogni, A., Trans.)
  68. Arendt, H. (1967). Truth and Politics.
  69. Bacon, F. (1625). Of Truth.
  70. Lewis, C. (1945). The Inner Ring.
  71. Weil, S. (1962). Human Personality. (Rees, R., Trans.)
  72. Morley, C. (1920). On laziness.
  73. Swift, J. (1729). A Modest Proposal.
  74. Singer, P. (1972). Famine, Affluence, and Morality.
  75. Wolf, S. (1982). Moral Saints.
  76. Hardin, G. (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons.
  77. Ostrom, E., Burger, J., Field, C., Norgaard, R., & Policansky, D. (1999). Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.
  78. Plato (ca. 380 BCE). The Allegory of the Cave. (Eyer, S., Trans.)
  79. Sartre, J. (1946). Existentialism is a Humanism. (Kaufman, W., Trans.)
  80. King, M. (1963). Letter from Birmingham Jail.
  81. Butler, J. (1988). Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory.
  82. White, E. (1949). Here is New York.
  83. Twain, M. (1883). The Art of Inhumation.
  84. Feynman, R. (1974). Cargo Cult Science.
  85. Eliot, T. (1919). Tradition and the Individual Talent.
  86. Rorty, R. (1972). The World Well Lost.
  87. Kierkegaard, S. (1844). Subjectivity is Truth.
  88. Feldman, R. (2010). Reasonable Religious Disagreements.
  89. Goldman, A. (2010). Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement.
  90. Christensen, D. (2013). Epistemic Modesty Defended.
  91. Yudkowsky, E. (2017). Against Modest Epistemology.
  92. Cowen, T., & Hanson, R. (2004). Are Disagreements Honest.
  93. Frankfurt, H. (1986). On Bullshit.
  94. Black, M. (1983). The Prevalence of Humbug.
  95. Healy, K. (2017). Fuck Nuance.
  96. Gould, S. (1997). Nonoverlapping Magisteria.
  97. Freud, S. (1925). Note upon the "Mystic Writing-Pad".
  98. Lacan, J. (1949). The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function. (Fink, B., Trans.)
  99. Tanizaki, J. (1933). In Praise of Shadows. (Harper, T., & Seidensticker Edward, Trans.)
  100. Woolf, V. (1929). A Room of One's Own.
  101. Clifford, W. (1877). The Ethics of Belief.
  102. Habermas, J. (1980). Modernity: An Unfinished Project.
  103. Peirce, C. (1891). The Architecture of Theories.
  104. Felski, R. (2011). Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion.
  105. Snow, C. (1959). The Two Cultures.
  106. Hutcheon, L. (2013). Postmodernism.
  107. West, C. (1990). The New Cultural Politics of Difference.
  108. Hall, S. (1990). Cultural Identity and Diaspora.
  109. Phillips, A. (2015). Against Self-Criticism.
  110. Ainslie, G. (1999). The Dangers of Willpower.
  111. Debord, G. (1967). The Commodity as Spectacle. (Perlman, F., Trans.)
  112. Fukuyama, F. (1989). The End of History?.
  113. Huntington, S. (2000). The Clash of Civilizations?.
  114. Graeber, D. (2007). There Never Was a West.
  115. Appadurai, A. (1990). Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.
  116. Appiah, K. (2006). The Case for Contamination.
  117. Zakaria, F. (1997). The Rise of Illiberal Democracy.
  118. Barber, B. (1992). Jihad vs. McWorld.
  119. Nye, J. (1990). Soft Power.
  120. Mead, W. (2014). The Return of Geopolitics.
  121. Oppenheimer, J. (1953). Atomic Weapons and American Policy.
  122. Von Neumann, J. (1955). Can We Survive Technology?.
  123. Skinner, B. (1982). Why We Are Not Acting to Save The World.
  124. Joy, B. (2000). Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.
  125. Vinge, V. (1993). The Coming Technological Singularity.
  126. Land, N. (1994). Meltdown.
  127. Marinetti, F. (1909). The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism. (Flint, R., Trans.)
  128. Sterling, B. (2009). Don't look back: Bruce Sterling on F.T. Marinetti.
  129. Barbrook, R., & Cameron, A. (1995). The Californian Ideology.
  130. Kaplan, J. (1996). The Counter-Culture Writes Back.
  131. Laboria Cuboniks (2018). Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation.
  132. Srnicek, A., & Williams, N. (2013). #ACCELERATE: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics.
  133. Keynes, J. (1930). Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.
  134. Hume, D. (1748). Of the Original Contract.
  135. Berlin, I. (1969). Two Concepts of Liberty.
  136. MacCallum, G. (1967). Negative and Positive Freedom.
  137. Dworkin, R. (1978). Liberalism.
  138. MacIntyre, A. (1981). The Nature of the Virtues.
  139. Shklar, J. (1989). The Liberalism of Fear.
  140. Greenwald, A. (1980). The Totalitarian Ego.
  141. Kahneman, D. (2003). Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics.
  142. Katsikopoulos, K. (2014). Bounded rationality: the two cultures.
  143. Simon, H. (1955). A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice.
  144. Schelling, T. (1956). An Essay on Bargaining.
  145. Myerson, R. (1999). Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory.
  146. Hofstadter, D. (1983). Dilemmas for Superrational Thinkers, Leading Up to a Luring Lottery.
  147. Mozi (ca. 400-300 BCE). Book 4: Universal Love. (Mei, P., Trans.)
  148. Norden, B. (2003). A Response to the Mohist Arguments in “Impartial Caring”.
  149. Parfit, D. (1988). What We Together Do.
  150. Axelrod, R. (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation.
  151. Ellsberg, D. (1961). Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms.
  152. Taleb, N. (2008). The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of Statistics.
  153. Schumacher, E. (1973). Buddhist Economics.
  154. Bateson, G. (1970). Form, Substance and Difference.
  155. Thomas, L. (1972). Antaeus in Manhattan.
  156. Ostrom, E. (2000). Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms.
  157. Medawar, P. (1963). Is the scientific paper a fraud.
  158. Midgley, M. (1974). The Game Game.
  159. Wallace, D. (2016). Roger Federer as Religious Experience.
  160. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). Play and Intrinsic Rewards.
  161. Sutton-Smith, B. (1997). Play and Ambiguity.
  162. Herbert, M. (2021). Work, Play, Flow.
  163. Leopold, A. (1986). Thinking Like a Mountain.
  164. Gold, R. (1995). How Smart Does Your Bed Have to Be, Before You Are Afraid to Go to Sleep at Night?.
  165. Greenberg, C. (1939). Avant-Garde and Kitsch.
  166. Kracauer, S. (1924). Boredom.
  167. Thiel, P. (2007). The Education of a Libertarian.
  168. McManus, M. (2023). Libertarians Weren’t Always Apologists for the Rich and Powerful.
  169. Gawande, A. (2012). Failure and Rescue.
  170. Girard, R. (1982). The Question of Mimesis and Peter’s Denial.
  171. Landy, J. (2012). Deceit, Desire, and the Literature Professor: Why Girardians Exist.
  172. Newton, I. (1671). A Letter of Mr. Isaac Newton … containing his New Theory about Light and Colors.
  173. Chamberlin, T. (1897). The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses.
  174. Simler, K. (2016). Crony Beliefs.
  175. Kunda, Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoning.
  176. Cegłowski, M. (2010). Scott And Scurvy.
  177. Adorno, T. (1974). The Essay as Form.
  178. Nabokov, V. (1948). Good Readers and Good Writers.
  179. Steiner, G. (1961). The Retreat from the Word.
  180. Auerbach, E. (1969). Philology and “Weltliteratur”. (Said, M., & Said, E., Trans.)
  181. Moretti, F. (2000). Conjectures on World Literature.
  182. Rancière, J. (2004). The Emancipated Spectator.
  183. Feuerbach, L. (1848). The Essence of Religion.
  184. Berger, J. (1980). Why Look at Animals?.
  185. Birch, J. (2025). Why is Animal Consciousness Controversial? A Trialogue.
  186. Regan, T. (1986). The Case for Animal Rights.
  187. Gandhi, M. (1926). Is This Humanity?. (Desai, M., Trans.)
  188. Larkin, P. (1983). The Pleasure Principle.
  189. Milne, A. (1920). The pleasure of writing.
  190. Le Guin, U. (2004). The Operating Instructions.
  191. Hazlitt, W. (1826). On Depth and Superficiality.
  192. Oliver, M. (2016). Of Power and Time.
  193. Wood, J. (2010). Serious Noticing.
  194. Simic, C. (1987). Reading Philosophy at Night.
  195. Pynchon, T. (1993). The Deadly Sins/Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee.
  196. Dillard, A. (1982). Total Eclipse.
  197. Stove, D. (1991). What is Wrong with Our Thoughts?.
  198. Harding, S. (1992). Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is “Strong Objectivity”?.
  199. Bush, V. (1945). As We May Think.
  200. Shannon, C. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication.
  201. McLuhan, M. (1964). The Medium is the Message.
  202. Carey, J. (1989). A Cultural Approach to Communication.
  203. Garrod, S., & Pickering, M. (2004). Why is conversation so easy?.
  204. Johnson, S. (1750). The difference between an author’s writings and his conversation.
  205. Clark, H., & Brennan, S. (1991). Grounding in Communication.
  206. Kester, G. (2005). Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art.
  207. Danto, A. (1964). The Artworld.
  208. Dickie, G. (1974). What is Art? An Institutional Analysis.
  209. Kracauer, S. (1927). Photography. (Levin, T., Trans.)
  210. Winterson, J. (1995). Art Objects.
  211. Fried, M. (1967). Art and Objecthood.
  212. Bishop, C. (2008). The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.
  213. Krauss, R. (1979). Sculpture in the Expanded Field.
  214. Crimp, D. (1980). The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism.
  215. Baker, G. (2005). Photography’s Expanded Field.
  216. Sekula, A. (1982). On the Invention of Photographic Meaning.
  217. Judd, D. (1964). Specific Objects.
  218. Steyerl, H. (2009). In Defense of the Poor Image.
  219. Alpers, S. (1983). Interpretation without Representation, or, the Viewing of Las Meninas.
  220. Kosuth, J. (1969). Art After Philosophy.
  221. Rosenberg, H. (1952). The American Action Painters.
  222. Cockcroft, E. (1974). Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War.
  223. Anderson, C. (2008). The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete.
  224. Breiman, L. (2001). Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures.
  225. Kaplan, R., Chambers, D., & Glasgow, R. (2014). Big Data and Large Sample Size: A Cautionary Note on the Potential for Bias.
  226. Domingos, P. (2012). A few useful things to know about machine learning.
  227. Halevy, A., Norvig, P., & Pereira, F. (2009). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data.
  228. Wigner, E. (1960). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.
  229. Hamming, R. (1980). The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics.
  230. Livio, M. (2012). Why Math Works.
  231. Pearl, J. (2018). Theoretical Impediments to Machine Learning With Seven Sparks from the Causal Revolution.
  232. Bishop, J. (2021). Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning Will Not Fix It.
  233. Wei, J. (2022). Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models.
  234. Anderson, P. (1972). More Is Different.
  235. Laughlin, R. (2000). The Theory of Everything.
  236. Goldenfeld, N. (1999). Simple Lessons from Complexity.
  237. Gell-Mann, M. (2002). What Is Complexity?.
  238. Simon, H. (1962). The Architecture of Complexity.
  239. Sutton, R. (2019). The Bitter Lesson.
  240. Bastiat, F. (1845). Petition of the Candlemakers. (Goddard, A., Trans.)
  241. Madison, J. (1788). Federalist No. 51: The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments.
  242. Hamilton, A. (1788). Federalist No. 78: The Judiciary Department.
  243. Washington, G. (1796). Farewell Address.
  244. Franklin, B. (1911). Speech in the Convention.
  245. Lincoln, A. (1863). The Gettysburg Address.
  246. Henry, P. (1775). Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.
  247. Eisenhower, D. (1961). Farewell Address.
  248. Kennedy, J. (1961). Inaugural Address.
  249. Hofstadter, R. (1964). The Paranoid Style in American Politics.
  250. Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1847). Manifesto of the Communist Party. (Moore, S., Trans.)
  251. Trotsky, L. (1935). If America Should Go Communist.
  252. Kautsky, K. (1914). Ultra-Imperialism. (unknown, Trans.)
  253. Lenin, V. (1915). Introduction to "Imperialism and World Economy". (unknown, Trans.)
  254. Harvey, D. (2004). The “New Imperialism”: Accumulation by Dispossession.
  255. Luxemburg, R. (1915). The Crisis of German Social Democracy (Chapter 1).
  256. Schumpeter, J. (1918). The Sociology of Imperialism.
  257. Broyles, W. (1984). Why Men Love War.
  258. Butler, S. (1933). War Is Just a Racket.
  259. Jünger, E. (1993). Total Mobilization. (Golb, J., & Wolin, R., Trans.)
  260. Penn, W. (1693). An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe.
  261. Ruin, H. (2011). Time as Ek-stasis and Trace of the Other.
  262. Bergson, H. (1911). The Perception of Change. (Andison, M., Trans.)
  263. Barbour, J. (2009). The Nature of Time.
  264. Mandelbrot, B. (1967). How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension.
  265. Ainslie, G. (1974). Impulse Control in Pigeons.
  266. Seneca (49). On the Shortness of Life. (Williams, G., Trans.)
  267. Hägglund, M. (2019). Why Mortality Makes Us Free.
  268. Neuhouser, F. (2019). Spirit, Life, and Freedom.
  269. Camus, A. (1957). The Myth of Sisyphus.
  270. Taylor, R. (1970). The Meaning of Life.
  271. Williams, B. (1973). The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality.
  272. Epicurus (~300 BCE). Letter to Menoeceus. (Bailey, C., Trans.)
  273. Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). Eye and Mind. (Dallery, C., Trans.)
  274. Levy, N. (2021). Final thoughts.
  275. Nozick, R. (1974). The Experience Machine.
  276. Rawlette, S. (2023). Analytic Hedonism and Observable Moral Facts.
  277. Pearce, D. (2007). The Abolitionist Project.
  278. Carlsmith, J. (2022). Against Meta-ethical Hedonism.
  279. Eiseley, L. (1957). The Judgment of the Birds.