Continuing from part one on The Ego and Its Own, focusing now on the sections "The Owner" and "My Power." Stirner lets us know that his egoism ("ownness") is not compatible with liberal egalitarianism, which he sees as just a continuation of the Christian project of perfecting humanity. He calls liberalism the religion of free states. The humanist emphasis on what Feuerbach  Continue Reading …

2026 Update: With new AI technology, we've now generated transcriptions for hopefully every PEL episode on this site. They're no longer PDFs, but instead embedded in the blog post associated with the episode. About transcriptions: We have experimented with some transcription companies and have on the whole not found the effort worth the number of users that access them. We  Continue Reading …

A draft essay by David Brin, "16 Questions About Religion." Here's some background (and where you can post your comments on it). Here's info on some correspondence between Mark and David on this. Here's part of ch. 1 of Jonathan R. White's book Terrorism and Homeland Security. He was the guest on our ep. 72 and you can buy the whole book here. Here's Eric Petrie's  Continue Reading …