OnlySky
Rational thought for irrational times. Shape a future based on reality, compassion, and secular courage
Keeping quiet
Silence may become a protected resource in the future — if we can stand it.
If America won't build the future, China will gladly do it
The US isn't the only nation capable of technological progress.
How the fight for evolution prepared us to fight for democracy
Thinking of democracy as a threatened species can help us preserve its future.
The pendulum always swings, until it doesn't
Have we finally reached a moment when American politics will not swing back?
The happiest nations on Earth are strongly secular
This correlation has staying power.
MAGA and the questionable judgment of history
Even on the rosy assumption that this era ends, we will never see the return to relative consensus that was once possible.
How can we get a warning to the distant future?
Can we design warnings that last as long as the mortal dangers we create?
The coming dark age of stupidity
The future is not so bright.
Dissent and the power of two
The urge to conform is enormous. The presence of one other dissenter is often all it takes to resist.
Are we at the end of a narcissism epidemic?
Is the future less self-centered?
A survival bunker for civilization
In the event of a catastrophic agricultural plague, a vault of seeds slumbering in Arctic permafrost could bring us back from the brink.
When it’s hell on the surface, it’s time to go deep
The perspective is out there.
