Wright's Writing

[From an old journal entry.] Noam Chomsky is my intellectual conscience. I think about him every day, multiple times a day. He helps...

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...

Classical and neoclassical economics are silly. Maybe at times they stumble into a good idea or two, but the foundation is unreal. Let’s...

[This is another book-excerpt, a negatively charged one this time.] Nietzsche’s self-appointed task of “revaluating values” isn’t...

One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the...

If intellectual curiosity means the desire to learn new things, encounter new ideas, explore and explain the world, then “intellectuals”...

Notes on a classic.— Charles Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) is still worth reading, a...

[From this book.] An example of intellectuals’ need to make everything more complicated and difficult than it has to be is the unending...