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The Telos of Cornhole
If your ideas are making you worse at sports, they’re the wrong ideas
Published on Chisel
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Sep 17
Only God Can Judge Me
What Americans most fundamentally believe.
Sep 15
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James Taylor Foreman
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Michael Levin’s Pragmatism Solves the Postmodern Problem
The biology of the gods.
Sep 12
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James Taylor Foreman
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To Believe Is Like To Go to Sleep
To all the times I couldn’t sleep.
Sep 8
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James Taylor Foreman
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A Genealogy of The Southern Surge
Why Southerners still kinda remember how to make kids learn.
Sep 5
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James Taylor Foreman
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August 2026
You Cannot Win a Culture War
Thinking careers are built by naming a fragment of a god and letting the reader think it can be beaten, but cannot.
Aug 29
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James Taylor Foreman
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America Is Coolness
The drive to be cool is the foundational contradiction of American consciousness. Once you notice it, you’ll see it everywhere.
Aug 22
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James Taylor Foreman
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Technology Is Over
There are social clues, at least, that the exponential curve is going sigmoid.
Aug 18
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James Taylor Foreman
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Batman of the Philosophy Department
G.K Chesterton threatening to murder nihilists, and why modern philosophy is so badly written.
Aug 15
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James Taylor Foreman
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The Uni-Context Is Not New
It's the concept of privacy that's pretty new.
Aug 11
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James Taylor Foreman
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Essay Is a Better Format Than Book
When in doubt, read more essays and short stories.
Aug 8
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James Taylor Foreman
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You Probably Cannot Wield AI
But let’s not pretend we’re not all trying to.
Aug 4
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James Taylor Foreman
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