Wright's Writing

L’enfer, c’est les autres?— Contrary to what Sartre pessimistically thought, if hell exists, it is not other people. It is the absence of...

It’s a cliché but it’s worth repeating: one cause of modern loneliness is the attitude of treating people as means to an end, namely...

(This is the sequel to the blog post "From the Greeks to the Enlightenment." From my book Finding Our Compass.) Nietzsche ridiculed the...

[A book excerpt.] The best way to think about the human task of living is that it should be, as Nietzsche said, a continual journey of...

The power of indoctrination is shown by the fact that most people don’t consider themselves radical leftists, socialists, or anarchists....

[Excerpt from a book.] The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott said it simply—one of those simple but profound truths worth remembering: “It is...