Archive - Social Thought with Wes Alwan

Some thoughts on freedom, flight, and getting high and tight.

May 30

A follow-up to the Partially Examined Life episode

May 23

First One on Hume's Aesthetics, April 28 at 11am Eastern Time

Apr 20

With notes on Macy Gray's "I Try"

Mar 13

We don't have to have pure intentions to be on the right side.

Feb 28

The defense of free discussion that I’m working on is not your typical “free speech” book. It may seem constricting that in many ways a response to and…

Feb 27

A Theory of Sublimation

Feb 27

Reflections on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Feb 22

Does freedom of opinion require freedom from opinion?

Feb 11

The structure of being looks a lot like the structure of desire.

Jan 23

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