A meditation on Kanye West’s antisemitic tweet and why it’s not necessarily so easy to separate the art from the artist — About a week ago, with my morning ritual of scouring the internet for something interesting to read while eating breakfast underway, one headline, in particular, grabbed my attention: “Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter Following Antisemitic Tweet.” Huh? My immediate reaction was somewhere in between a kind of dissociative shock…

What the tragedy can and cannot say about the problem of evil — If God is all-powerful, all-good and all-knowledgable, how can there be evil in the world? This simple question — one that has, on its own, inspired a whole branch of theology called theodicy — has remained a constant source of anguish throughout human history. One needs to look no further…

From Baby Keem to Flume to Brockhampton to Madeon, a list compiled by someone who had way too much time on their hands — Covid’s a bitch, I quickly learned as I woke up with an ominously scratchy throat last week. The sore throat, incessant coughing, fever and congestion are one thing; the weighty exhaustion that makes your limbs feel like they’re somewhere between concrete and titanium? The brain fog that leaves you feeling…

An endearing — if not flawed — mixtape that explores the artist’s painful transition into adulthood — “You wish you could be me, don’t you? You wish you could have my creativity, don’t you?,” Mac Miller asks out loud as he’s staring into a camera lens, likely delirious after camping out in the studio for the past months recording his most recent mixtape, Macadelic. He’s obviously joking…

A theme song for overachievers who feel like underachieving loners anyway — Like that moment that you step out of your front door in April and smell the flowery scent of spring for the first time, when a new Tame Impala song comes out, you know it’s going to be a good day. And while the B-Sides of most bands might be…

The star-studded dark comedy asks how the world would react if it was months away from mass extinction. The final result is partially depressing, partially amusing, but all too real — One morning, as the townspeople were enjoying what they thought was the beginning of a day like any other in their marketplace, a dishevelled man holding a lantern appears out of nowhere. “I seek God! I seek God!,” he begins to scream indiscriminately at both no one and everyone at…

As Martin Heidegger predicted almost seventy years ago, technology is affecting the modern world in some not-so-pleasant ways. Where do we go from here? — Why is the leading cause of disability as of now depression? Why do pharmaceuticals seem to be flooding our society’s bloodstream more and more each day? Why is the word “trauma” brought up so regularly that it doesn’t even sound unusual to suffer from it anymore?

A Drake mediator, hater and apologist discuss whether the contentious single about being too sexy is a great new track or is god awful — Drake Mediator: Alright gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me today. So it looks like the kids, fans and rap critics alike are up in arms about our boy Drake’s new hottest single, “Way 2 Sexy” — some are saying it’s a great new track and some are saying…

Maybe some problems aren’t the kinds of things that money can make disappear so easily? Oh and SPOILERS — In one of the more memorable scenes of Plato’s Republic, a bickering match takes place between Socrates and a curmudgeon named Thrasymachus about justice: while Socrates is certain that justice is something real that is worth pursuing for its own sake, good ol’ Thrasymachus thinks that all talk of justice…