Archive - A Small Kernel

[OS] Although I am no singer, I would sing for you

Jul 6 •

[OS] Solving Constitutional Interpretation

The Devil's Advocate #1: The Inaugural Issue

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Kant From the Top Down [1]: Introduction and Method

Making a map before setting on a journey

Jun 14 •

[OS] Substack Recommendations 1

Inaugural Edition

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Aesthetics, Humor, Resentment, Happiness

More propaedeutia

May 20

[OS] Captain Ahab Wants His Father's Penis

This is satire? I think?

May 5 •

April 2025

A Jeremiad For Our Time?

Corners of the Internet: The Last Psychiatrist [3/3]

Apr 20

[OS] Practice Is Theory: A Copula

In which I take a first, halting, treacherous step towards becoming a Substack reply guy

Apr 15 •

March 2025

Why the Neoprogressives Are Coming

Making the rational (somewhat) real and making the real (somewhat) rational

Mar 16 •

[OS] You Don't Think it's Good to be Good

Beware the sheep with caprine horns

Mar 3 •

February 2025

American Radical Reformism, ca. 1830-1970

Returning to the Neoprogressivism Thesis with a stylized history

Feb 18

[OS] Addendum: Is Religion Moral Masturbation?

Proving the rule

Feb 5 •

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