Archive - Bennett's Phylactery

Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy

[Repost of Episode 53 of the EXIT Podcast] BAP’s dissertation argues an ostensibly narrow point: that Socrates had it coming.Bennett's Phylactery is a…

Oct 21, 2023 •

Bennett's Phylactery

May 2023

Natal Conference 2023

By the end of this century, every country on earth will have a shrinking population. Secular economic decline will upend the structure of the Western…

May 15, 2023 •

Bennett's Phylactery

1:11

February 2023

How Did the Taliban Win?

Even among smart dissident types, the default explanation for the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is basically just “grit” and “sticktuitiveness” and…

Feb 18, 2023 •

Bennett's Demilich

1:12:25

January 2023

#15: Breeding Our Way Out

Jan 2, 2023 •

Bennett's Demilich

November 2022

#14: Elon Said It's My Turn to Root Your Limbic System

Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. A giant publicly-traded cybernetic egregore has been saddled and bridled by one human being — and now…

Nov 5, 2022 •

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July 2022

The Frontier Was Always Closed (To You)

Some thoughts about Albion’s Seed for the Fourth of July, and why this incredibly fractious group of (by modern standards) patriarchal authoritarian…

Jul 6, 2022 •

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1:08:53

June 2022

#13: Sacred Cowardice

I have been asked to provide a take on the “Mormon MomTok” “soft swinger” scandal, in my official capacity as Brand Ambassador. So I looked it up…

Jun 13, 2022 •

Bennett's Demilich

I’ve been chewing on five or six different essays for the last several months, and they’ve never come out quite right, and I’ve realized that they’re…

Jun 7, 2022 •

Bennett's Demilich

April 2022

Grace spent a few weeks in the hospital. It wasn’t bad; she’d never had opioids before. More than that, she was finished. Ever since she was a child, as…

Apr 9, 2022 •

Bennett's Demilich

March 2022

Continuing from my submission to Passage Prize, Amira. Read part 1 here: Part 2: As she rounded a corner two blocks away, Grace spotted the crowd…

Mar 17, 2022 •

Bennett's Demilich

Grace hadn’t said it in anger. She had been barely aware she had said it at all, until the classroom turned to stone around her, and ice crawled up her…

Mar 10, 2022 •

Bennett's Demilich

November 2021

#12: Pilgrim's Egress

[What follows is a repost of EXIT Newsletter #6. I publish the newsletter weekly for EXIT subscribers — you can sign up for free at exitgroup.us.] Under…

Nov 25, 2021 •

Bennett's Demilich

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