Justin Murphy

"Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."

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Seneca on philosophy as immortality

Stendhal, Sex, Classics, Jews

You are allowed to go straight to true knowledge of the highest things.

Slavery gets a bad rap, but it had one silver lining.

Multipolar aesthetic warfare, cruelty, marriage, and Charlotte Perriand

What could enjoy the Mandate of Heaven more than an autopoietic truth system offensive to all prestigious consensus and immune to human manipulation?

"The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions."

And the most important event we've ever hosted.

"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago."

“Many men compete in digging and kicking, but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.”

Stop saving your best ideas for later because later never comes.

A man should not seek intellectual satisfaction from his wife, but from the only place men have ever found it.

Do you have what it takes to leave behind a long-lasting institution?

A return to the masters, a republic of letters.

"The world is becoming hypersensitive to signs."

To win the culture war, leave the culture war.

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”

"There is something in the synchronization of emotion that surpasses the power of standardization of opinion that was typical of the mass media in the second half of the 20th century."

On Algorithmic Publishing with Dignity

Why Writing on the Internet Still Hasn't Been Tried

“You are hanging on by a very fine thread, and I dig that about you.”

Why intelligence and knowledge are overrated, while honesty and courage are underrated.

Three reflections toward the acceleration of traditional knowledge.

Then, about two weeks ago, I had a real idea...

I’ve built two fully-functioning web apps so far.

This script will take your essay text, extract key points, and use function-calling to create a subtle thread composed of your ideas.

Why the future belongs to the wordcel tinkerer.

On reading Plato's Republic, writing better, and another nail in the coffin of institutional publishing.

"Humanity forgets... that it is a rigor of chess masters, not of angels."

"Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal.

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"Life eternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil, and that to obtain the one and escape the other we must live rightly."

"The things I want are not in any country, nor in any job."

And what you should do instead.

Meet the 7-foot albino who says you should petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute.

What the media won't tell you about the famous media theorist.

"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good."

“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.”

On the Pursuit of Artistic Excellence

"It all starts for you with a casual channel-hopper question: What's happening on the other side?"

Can social science vindicate religion, or should we respect the Cartesian Bargain instituted 400 years ago?

Transcript of a public lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre.

"The most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing."

Reflections on the judicious use of social media.

"Intelligence would be electrified by naïveté and humor."

Never seek to impress, having kids is no excuse, and the absolute necessity of a high-intensity, private friend group.

And how to find secret weapons.

"A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light."