Sitemap - 2024 - Bentham's Newsletter
The Best Argument For Christianity
In Defense Of Friendly and Agreeable Interactions With Your Political Opponents
Don't Cheer For Luigi Mangione
The Case For Extremely Severe Penalties For January Sixth Insurrectionists
The Pathological Incuriosity, Ignorance, and Imperiousness of the New Atheists
How Much Does Morality Require You To Give?
I Talked With The Most Prolific Critic of the Anthropic Argument
The Weirdness Argument Against Cancel Culture
Against The Kalam Cosmological Argument For God
Be Outrageous So Long As You Speak The Truth
Neil Degrasse Tyson Is Crazy Wrong About Veganism
Christianity Is Right About Sin
I Was Vegan Before I Learned This
True Or False: Creativity Is A More Powerful Force Than Intelligence
The Good "The Good It Promises And The Harm It Does" Promises And The Harm It Does
Nathan Robinson Is Confidently Wrong About Everything
Debate Tactics Aren't Really A Thing
The Things You Care About Mostly Don't Matter
What Giving To Givewell Prevents
The Republicans Are No Longer Conservative
There Are Philosophical Arguments
The Unspeakable Horrors Beyond Comprehension That We Inflict On Thanksgiving Turkeys
Must We Hurt Even The Little Animals?
Tens Of Millions Of Missing Babies
For Pushing Large Men Off Bridges
It's Easy To Overestimate Outrageous Things Done By Your Political Opponents
Rebutting Every Objection To Giving To The Shrimp Welfare Project
I Published A Paper On Why It's Good To Have Kids If They Live Good Lives
6 Questions Atheists Can’t Answer
Nate Silver Derangement Syndrome
You All Helped Over Half A Billion Shrimp!
The Best Charity Isn't What You Think
Young Liberals Are Depressed Because Of Ubiquitous Political Pessimism
The Christian Case For Animal Welfare
How I Would Like Democrats To Change
How I Learned That You Should Push Children Into Ponds
Crooked LAMESTREAM Media LIES About Philosophy of Mind
Debate With Ape In The Coat About Anthrpics
Don't Freak Out About The Election
Love Your Neighbor Of Opposite Politics
Mary's Room Refutes Physicalism
Precisely Defining The Self-Indication Assumption Shows It Is Right
Reflections on the Man From the Future
You Were Not Harmed By Past Wrongdoing
Ways The World Is Getting Better
In Defense of Trump Derangement Syndrome
In Defense of Denying Atrocities
Aren't There Just Obviously Two Genders?
Is Trump Attempting A Coup Disqualifying?
Extreme Suffering On The Farms
Is Income Redistribution Like Friendship Redistribution?
The Horror About Haitians Eating Dogs Show The Incoherence Of Our Attitudes Towards Animals
Why Are So Many Left-Wing Protests So Offputting?
Highlights From "The Most Plausible Explanation Of Why God Allows Evil"
Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Ignorant. They're Bad At Epistemology.
Why I Believe In Objective Morality
Against TJump's Very Crazy Epistemology
The Most Plausible Explanation Of Why God Allows Evil
An Inebriated Tommy Blanchard And Tired Bentham's Bulldog Discuss Dualism
The Worst Cosmological Argument Is An Argument For Atheism
Debating Ian Jobling About Free Will And Consciousness
Do Deductive Arguments For God Establish Certainty?
Rich Lowry Gets Cancelled For Not Saying A Racial Slur
The Moral Risk Argument Against Meat Eating
You Probably Don't Know If You're Bad At Philosophy
Freddie DeBoer's Temporal Copernican Principle Implies Early Humans Had Psychic Powers
Chat With Jeff Maurer About Eating Meat, Immigration, Lab Meat, Trump, and Charles Manson
Alice Crary's Embarrassingly Bad Criticisms Of Effective Altruism
The Phenomenal Object Argument
Come Argue About Anthropics Or God
My Master Argument For The Self-Indication Assumption Is Even Better Than I Thought
Evaluate The Version Of An Idea That Most Convinces You
Pro-Lifers Shouldn't Be Single-Issue Voters
Chatting with Matthew about Utilitarianism
The PEPFAR+Economic Case For Harris
Debating Richard Hanania About Trump V. Harris
Measure Thinkers By Their Best Ideas
Obvious Things You're Not Supposed To Say
What Does The Atheist Have Left?
Hiding In Plain Sight: The Horror Of Animal Farming
Chill Out About Political Differences
Compartmentalized Conditionalization Considered Confused
Factory Farming Is Not Just Bad: It’s the Worst Thing Ever
Bentham's Bulldog Stands With Caplan
The Vitalist Critique Of Effective Altruism Is Terrible
Invincible Philosophical Ignorance And The Mystery Of Philosophers
Ethical Vegetarianism Makes No Sense
Neither Master Nor Slave, But Utilitarian
The Resurrection Argument For...Judaism???
Contra Walt Bismarck On Whether I Should Become A Gay Prostitute
Chat With Kryptogal About God And Infinity
Playing Devil's Advocate Is Good Actually
Kamala Harris Is Unlikely To Win
The Drowning Child Argument Is Simply Correct
Why Is Prejudice The Sole Unforgiveable Sin?
Cancel Culture Favors Cowards, Morons, and Hypocrites
Why Eating Meat Is Like Torturing Puppies
Discussing Judaism And Christianity With Tovia Singer
Theism Has A Super High Prior Probability
My Intellectual Autobiography Updated
Low Decoupling And The Trump Shooting
Critical Theory Is Just Word Games
Philosophy Has A Conformism Problem
Advanced Footage Of The Next Trump Biden Debate
In Defense Of The Casual Polymath
Take The Giving What We Can Pledge
Why Don't Christians Make This Argument More?
Explaining My Paper Arguing For The Self-Indication Assumption
God, Repugnance, And Recurrence
Arguments In Philosophy Are Mysterious Like Arguments In Math
What Is An X Is Almost Always A Cheap Gotcha
Social Justice Rhetoric Is Often A Smokescreen For Being A Jerk
How I—And Many Others—Were Duped
Rebutting All The Objections To Immigration With Alex Nowrasteh
Arguing About Effective Altruism With Tracing Woodgrains
Universalism: A Comprehensive Defense
Ask Me Anything + Paid Subscriber Rewards
How To Make The World Boring And Incurious
Most Victims Of Woke Cancel Mobs Are Woke
When Does Believing False Things Make You Bad?
People Mostly Don't Care About Morality
Disproving The Self-Sampling Assumption Using Horrifying Human Lobster Combos
Be Proud To Be An Effective Altruist
Against The Culture Transplant
Against Elegant Political Models
Ideas From High School Debate So Bad I Couldn't Make Them Up
Our Intuitions About The Criminal Justice System Are Screwed Up
Concrete Ways To Make Interesting Friends
Educational Polarization Doesn't Work How You Think
Why Lyman Stone's Criticism of Effective Altruism Is Bad
How To See If A Field Is Serious
The Problem For Right-Wing Elites
The Perfection Problem For Theism
It's Hard To Think The Bible Is Infallible When You Read It
It's Bad That There Are Incentives To Publish Boring Papers
A Writer's Best Articles Are The Least Clever
The Fine-Tuning Argument Simply Works
Cancel Culture Is A Tax On Being Interesting
Take the Bentham's Bulldog Survey!
It Matters If Abortion Is Murder
Ron Desantis's New Lab Meat Ban: Evil and Stupid
Am I An Utter Philistine On Account of My "Neo Utilitarianism?"
The Neoneoplatonic Argument For God
The Badness Rate of Apparent Bads Is ~.5
The Mathematical And Moral Case For You Becoming A Paid Subscriber
Contra Truth Teller on the Anthropic Argument For Theism
Moral Progress Has Always Pissed Us Off
If You're Going To Eat Animals, Eat Beef and Dairy
Popular Dumb Red Pill Contrarians
I Flew To Tennessee To Debate Bryan Caplan About God. Here's What Happened.
Opening Statement Caplan Debate
How Social Media Destroyed My Generation's Mental Health
Reviving The Argument From Biological Design
Contra Huemer On The Ontological Argument For Moral Realism
Contra Caplan Concerning Fine-Tuning
Why Criticisms of Effective Altruism Suck
On Leif Wenar's Absurdly Unconvincing Critique Of Effective Altruism
Weintraub Disproves The Main Halfer Argument
Prime Platonism: Why I Only Believe Prime Numbers Are Real
The Closed Eyes Argument For Thirding
Against Biting The Bullet On Adam and Eve
How To And How Not To Debunk Contrarian Theories
Several New Arguments For The Self-Indication Assumption
Tara Vander Dussen Loves to Lie About Factory Farms
No, The Camp David Proposal Didn't Cantonize The West Bank.
Reflections on my Conversation With James Fodor
The Self-Indication Assumption's Narrative
In Which I Rant About Albert Camus
I Was Wrong About Christianity
The View of Race Held by Many Progressive Academics is Broken
The Self Indication Assumption Works As Well As Effective Contraception
Contra Yglesias on Pharmaceutical Profits
Why Christianity Doesn't Make Sense
No, Cannibalism Is Obviously Not Being Normalized
Why Not Make Electrons in Love?
Debating Bitchspot Blog Part 2: My Rebuttal to His Rebuttal to Me
Debate With Bitchspot Blog About Theism Part 1: My Opening Statement
Defending Olum Against Bostrom and Ćirković
Against The Idea That The Media Should Fawningly Report On Those Who Set Themselves On Fire
Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Ignorant. They're Bad At Epistemology.
Investigating Christianity Part 2: Verifying The Minimal Facts
Investigating Christianity Part 1: Liar, Lunatic, Lord, Legend
Against My Case For Hedonism About Well-being
Theists Should Obviously Be Effective Altruists and Vegans
For an Unrestricted Self-Indication Assumption
How to Think Like a Philosopher
From the Falsity of Skepticism to Theism
The Anthropic Argument For Theism
Harmonious and Disharmonious Strength
The Argument From Weird Metaphysics Against Theism
God, Michael Huemer, and String Theory
Comparing Theism and Naturalism
A Version of the Contingency Argument I Don't Hate
A Theistic Theory of Everything
Two Pieces of Not Quite Poetry
How To—and How Not To—Solve the Problem of Evil
Essence, Energies, and Excellence
Why I Disagree With Gavin Ortlund About Hell
Why I Don't Buy The Moral Argument
The Argument From Nomological Harmony is Ridiculously Convincing
The Evidence For And Against Theism
Two Dozen Or So Thoughts About Theism
Three Niche Philosophical Objections To Christianity
Contra Huemer on Whether You Need Souls to Explain Fine Tuning
Reflections on the Richard Yetter Chappell vs. Dustin Crummett Debate