I've been going back today over old issues of Rod Dreher's Diary, my subscription-only newsletter about spirituality, and ran across one from 2021, on an idea the philosopher Robert Nozick had. It's ...

Zu viel! Zu viel! O, dass ich nun erwachte! ~ Tannhäuser According to legend, the bard Tannhäuser, on his way to a competition at the Wartburg, was seduced by the goddess Hulda, the consort of Wotan.

When Nozick first introduced the experience machine, the idea was purely hypothetical. Today, however, the lines between his philosophical musings and our reality in the digital age are not just ...

In 1995, a construction worker landed on a 6-inch nail, piercing his boot. After emergency physicians injected him with sedatives and cut away his footwear, they discovered that the nail had slid ...