insights & essays

This essay revisits Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia through the lens of today’s political and economic realities. Once admired as a defense of absolute individual rights, Nozick’s theory of “rights as side constraints” now reads as a hollow justification for isolation, inequality, and indifference.

Ingrid Robeyns’ concept of limitarianism asks a radical but timely question: how much wealth is too much? This essay explores the moral and political case for setting limits on individual accumulation, reframing debates around inequality by focusing less on poverty and more on excess.

The 2025 season of Love Island feels less like entertainment and more like a collective breakdown. Through gossip, fandom wars, and parasocial attachments, viewers are drawn into a cycle of obsession that mirrors deeper anxieties about gender, race, and intimacy in digital culture.

Ethics feels special—but is it beyond nature? Moore’s famous Open Question Argument challenges naturalism by insisting that moral concepts can’t be captured by natural facts, sparking a debate that still shapes philosophy today.

A personal journey through faith, loss, and philosophy — from the comfort of theism to the emptiness of nihilism, and finally to the liberating acceptance of absurdism. This essay blends personal reflection with Nietzsche, Camus, and pop culture to ask: if life has no set meaning, what happens when we choose to simply live and just be?