Conspicuous Cognition

Consequentialist moral philosophy and analysis

Economics, Philosophy, & Liberal Politics

On economics, identity, justice, and discourse...

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

Philosophy made uncommonly simple

Coming to terms with severe spinal cord injury; recording the experience from acute hospital, through rehab, and hopefully beyond. Using voice dictation software due to residual hand function.

Exploring the intersection of knowledge, truth, and politics.

Politics, philosophy and psychology from a slightly sceptical and cynical perspective.

A newsletter about science, social-justice-activism, why they sometimes fight, and how to help them get along better -- plus a good deal of other, more random stuff.

Exploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences

Peak Notions is the ideologically exhausted person’s guide to untangling ideas, identity, and the chaos we live in

improving social epistemology, rewarding reasoned discourse

Exploring the relationships between social justice discourse, inequality, and the rise of the symbolic professions.

Seeking to understand our behaviour - what we do, how we decide what to do and how to do it, and why we do it.

Psychology, philosophy, jokes, and more

Publishing independent research and curating the best science writing from across the blogosphere.

Exploring history to understand today and shape a better tomorrow.

Deciphering why people and society work the way they do

Human nature, psychology, social class, luxury beliefs, and more.

Making sense of science, policy and politics

a blog about ideas

Utilitarianism, ethical veganism, culture war stuff, philosophy, morality, and more!

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

How do we make the future (even) better than the present? By using science, evidence and reason. Progressives need to embrace progress again.

Weekend readings and selected Links

My personal Substack

Short essays about big ideas. I study what makes us human, from evolution to jazz.

Psychological science on rationality, reason and persuasion

Thoughts about anything

Law, Ideas, & Dunking on Fools

Poking holes in the stories we tell ourselves

Allenarsi a pensare, per salvarsi dal naufragio.

A history newsletter about the future

Essays from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Status Game. The Science of Storytelling and more; memoir, identity, psychology, storytelling, culture etc.

My personal Substack

A Substack hub for research, writing, and discussion by Matthew C. Nisbet, Professor of Communication & Public Policy, Northeastern University-Boston.