Written with the aid of AI. On a spring morning in May 2025, a 25-year-old named Guy Edward Bartkus parked a sedan packed with hundreds of pounds of homemade explosives outside an IVF fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. When he detonated the car, the massive blast gutted the building,[…]
In modern readings of consciousness, we find an interconnectedness that’s exclusive of autonomy and free will. We’re left powerless but for the conventional, albeit false, “I” we encounter in our experiential lives. So how then, do we count the “I” blameless for what occurs in the world when even our[…]
I’ll be comparing two laws that reside in different domains and different jurisdictions, so I’m not necessarily speaking in legal terms and mostly in the context of secularism as a principle. In Canada, Quebec’s governing party, the CAQ, recently passed Bill 21 (a secularism law) that bans the wearing of[…]
