Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• The shape of the pack

  8 Jul, 2026

  A Swiss zoologist watched captive wolves for eight years, coined a word, and got it right. Almost everything built on top of it was wrong.

• Canada Day reflections on patriotism and nationalism

  1 Jul, 2026

  Canada's flag is younger than many of its houses — a reflection on what patriotism and nationalism really are, which kind of national pride is worth having, and whether we should believe in our countries at all.

• Be kind — we're all suffering

  30 Jun, 2026

  A Scottish minister's proverb, a theory of mind you can test on yourself, and why the constant noise of being conscious is reason enough to go easy on each other.

• On being Allen Schyf

  29 Jun, 2026

  Why I needed a name that wasn't mine, and what Allen Schyf is actually for: cases, not causes.