Every text applies the same discipline: present an argument in its strongest form, then check it. No affirmative sentence without a verifiable source. Not opinion, but premises and proof.
Paper 01
What the cognitive sciences say about the intuitions that outlive the loss of faith
Paper 02
Why a good argument for one religion would prove another
Paper 03
Why a seminar costing several thousand euros, a hall in a trance and overwhelming testimonials prove nothing about a method's effectiveness, and what would prove it
Paper 04
And why that fear, however violent, says nothing about your worth
Paper 05
A material-by-material inquiry: what the gesture changes, what it does not, and why the answer depends as much on the matter as on the country
Paper 06
Privacy, encryption, Apple, Meta and the shadow of Snowden: a function-by-function inquiry to tell apart what is true, what is marketing, and against whom
Paper 07
The education-fertility gradient is a solid fact. The conclusion often drawn from it, a world filled with minds increasingly unable to think about their own survival, is not. An inquiry into what demography actually establishes, and into the leap it does not license
Paper 08
The word sometimes points to a real collective cause, sometimes it serves to pull one's own hand out of the problem, and we gain by knowing which of the two we are doing
Paper 09
Abolition followed verifiable reasons. The case for its return is strong where it owns up to being moral, weak everywhere it claims to be effective
Paper 10
Three questions that are constantly taken for one, and what each one can really answer