Archive - The Ration Card

The Good and the Moral

Morality doesn't care about your feelings

May 24 •

April 2025

No Thought for Food

(This piece was written in 2022)

Apr 28 •

January 2025

Progress and Conformity

The social costs of changing one's opinion are holding you - and civilization - back

Jan 8 •

April 2024

From Small Sparks to Big Fires

Did the ability to make fires evolve genetically?

Apr 19, 2024 •

January 2024

Read This Essay

If it's the one thing you read this year.

Jan 2, 2024 •

December 2023

Something's Just Not Right

Progress and Stasis

Dec 24, 2023 •

October 2023

Alternative Medicine

Systems that don't change are dangerous

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

Nature vs Culture

or Is Jane Goodall Evil?

Sep 23, 2023 •

Death is a Problem

We should do something about it.

Sep 15, 2023 •

August 2023

A Philosophy of Feeding Children

Should parents decide when, what and how much a child must eat?

Aug 25, 2023 •

The Absurdity of Censorship

While watching “Oppenheimer” recently it struck me that someone at the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) must have carefully examined a nude…

Aug 10, 2023 •

June 2023

I KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU

And I will force you to do it

Jun 27, 2023 •

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