Activity and Merit

As brought to my attention in a post yesterday at the Daily Nous, the "party philosopher" of the German nationalist party Alternative für Deutschland, Marc Jongen, was invited to speak at "Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times", a conference hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College.  Jongen seems like not only a curious …

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The Burden of Being

As part of my morning reading, I came across this article by David Benatar, "Kids? Just say no" on Aeon Magazine.  I must be something of a masochist, because I read the entire piece.  In short, the article is a utilitarian argument against procreation because life is more bad than good--an argument that Benatar has evidently …