I Am Building the Education I Should Have Built Years Ago

I was a good student.

Aug 26 • Michal Kalinowski

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The Rebuttal That Doesn't Quite Land

Alister McGrath is the critic Richard Dawkins was least prepared to answer. He read the same evidence, reached a different conclusion, and wrote a…

Aug 25 • Michal Kalinowski

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Reading Dawkins After You've Already Left

I lost my faith at thirteen.

Aug 11 • Michal Kalinowski

July 2026

Eight Lectures and a Dead Doctor

A doctor at Vienna Hospital in 1847 figured out why hundreds of women were dying in childbirth.

Jul 26 • Michal Kalinowski

The Most Dangerous People Are Not the Angry Ones

The most dangerous people are not the angry ones.

Jul 12 • Michal Kalinowski

June 2026

Your Moral Convictions Are Not What You Think They Are

You think you know why something is wrong.

Jun 27 • Michal Kalinowski

You Didn't Answer That Question

The most disturbing idea in Thinking, Fast and Slow isn't that we're biased.

Jun 11 • Michal Kalinowski

May 2026

Everyone Has an Agenda. Including You. Especially You.

There's a line early in The Elephant in the Brain that stops you cold:

May 28 • Michal Kalinowski

There's No Such Thing as a Violent Person

Sapolsky's Behave takes apart the idea of a fixed personality. Behaviour is the output of a layered stack of causes, biology, situation, history…

May 15 • Michal Kalinowski

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You Are Always Dying and Being Reborn — That's Not Metaphor

Jordan Peterson opens his Personality and Its Transformations course with a claim that sounds dramatic until you realize it's just accurate: the…

May 10 • Michal Kalinowski

April 2026

You're Going to Be Governed by Something — Make Sure It's the Right Thing

Peterson's How to Plan Your Life course argues the absence of a plan is a plan you didn't choose. Six lectures on order, chaos, fear, and the structure…

Apr 29 • Michal Kalinowski

Your Brain Is Lying to You — And It's Doing You a Favour

Huxley's Doors of Perception isn't a book about drugs. It's a book about how little of reality you're actually seeing, and why that might be exactly…

Apr 17 • Michal Kalinowski