Lifestyle
In the first Reason for Living online seminar, Thomas Walker-Werth explores what living a life based on reason really looks like and how it can help you flourish and achieve...
Lifestyle
Creating and Climbing Your Ladder of Happiness
Thomas Walker-Werth reveals why so many feel lost despite endless opportunities and shows how uncovering your true values can unlock a life of real meaning. He explores a powerful framework...
Philosophy
God’s Garage Sale: The One Tool He Won’t Sell
God grew tired of managing countless tools to control the universe and decided to sell them all at a garage sale—except for one mysterious black box he refused to part...
Lifestyle
Judging People is Good For Them—and For You
When I promote the idea of making life decisions—including about what relationships to maintain and invest in—according to a hierarchy of rational values, one of the most common objections I...
Philosophy
Facts Don’t Care About Your Faith, Feelings, or Consensus
Facts exist independently of faith, feelings, or consensus; only reason—grounded in observation, logic, and evidence—reveals what’s true and good, making rational thinking the path to both personal happiness and political freedom.
Philosophy
Altruism Has No Clothes
Altruism survives like the emperor’s fake clothes—propped up by fear, not reason. Strip it down, and all that’s left are logical fallacies.
Art & Culture
Quitting Christianity Wasn’t the End—It Was the Start
I’m hosting a reading group on atheism, speaking at a conference, and studying to become an intellectual.
Lifestyle
Rethinking Values to Make the Hard Decisions Easier
All of us face moments when our values appear to be in conflict. But what if there were a way to organize our values that meant we never needed to give up the things that really matter to us?
Art & Culture
Determinism and Purpose in “Player Piano”
Unless the reader is deeply fascinated by changing views on technology, Player Piano will likely disappoint.
Lifestyle
Reason, Honesty, and Independence: Three Misunderstood Ideas
Most people’s use of these concepts is so imprecise that trying to use them in our lives is like trying to drink a mixture of water and acid.
Art & Culture
Babel: An Attempted Fantasy Novel of Ideas
Though the magic system is creative and raises some interesting thoughts, Babel was trying to be a novel of ideas offering a strong opposition to colonialism—and in this, it failed.
Philosophy
The Younger Son Mindset, Explained
Why do some thrive while others stall? One mindset shift explains it all.