What is electricity for? Air conditioning, heat waves, and the lost teleology of power

Europe’s heat waves expose a deeper question: why is electricity celebrated for AI and EVs, but shamed when families use it to cool homes?

Jul 11 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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May 2026

Timmy the whale and the civilization that forgot life is sacred

A stranded humpback whale, two private rescuers, and a failing bureaucracy reveal what modern civilization no longer knows how to protect.

May 3 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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March 2026

The quiet theology of anti-metaphysics

The strange irony of a worldview that mocks transcendental truth and goodness, and its self-contradictory pursuit of the divine.

Mar 6 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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February 2026

The “perfect knowledge” trap: why the modern state can’t stop watching you

Somewhere along the way, “good governance” started to sound like this: if we can measure everything, we can fix everything.

Feb 27 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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January 2026

The Fable reboot thinks morality is just an opinion

Gaming's struggle with right and wrong mirrors a wider crisis of moral confusion

Jan 25 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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September 2025

Why government worshipers respond to logic with lead

How arguments become "violence," why you won't convert them, and a glance at what they really want from you.

Sep 17, 2025 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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August 2025

There is no tyranny without tyrants

And no amount of Hannah Arendt quotes will ever change that.

Published on Ben Geudens • Aug 20, 2025

December 2018

Beyond the state: identifying the criminal class

"If you want to know which side a person or institution belongs to, ask a simple forensic question."

Dec 2, 2018 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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March 2014

What is moral realism? The case for objective moral truth

What is moral realism? A clear guide to the idea that some moral claims are true, from Plato and Aquinas to Hume, Ayer, and modern philosophy.

Mar 6, 2014 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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January 2013

Being right isn’t enough: why rhetoric matters

Aristotle knew that truth needs more than facts to survive.

Jan 3, 2013 • Popular Philosophy and Ben Geudens

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