Nathaniel Glazer

The news, The They, and the despair of solitude

I am reading a book about Being and Time by Simon Critchley, with Critchley being a good philosopher himself, by the seminal philosopher Martin…

Nov 5 • Nathaniel Glazer

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October 2026

Reading, seeming and being, and perspectivism

I can’t emphasize the importance of reading and learning critical thinking skills enough.

Oct 14 • Nathaniel Glazer

August 2026

Nietzsche, slave morality, and identity politics.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously had the concept of “slave morality.” As opposed to “master morality,” slave morality is a reactive value system created by…

Aug 26 • Nathaniel Glazer

July 2026

Nietzsche, Free Spirits, and In-Groups.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously had the concept of a “free spirit,” who was someone who breaks free from the inherited dogma’s of religion, social norms…

Jul 9 • Nathaniel Glazer

May 2026

Nietzsche, perspectivism, and capital T truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche the famous German existentialist, famously wrote that “there are no facts, only interpretations.” Nietzsche meant that our epistemic…

May 27 • Nathaniel Glazer

Dark Night of the Soul and Despair

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May 15 • Nathaniel Glazer

December 2022

MKUltra, science and ethics, and the "deep state."

I recently finished a book a couple of weeks ago by the esteemed journalist Stephen Kinzer.

Dec 31, 2022 • Nathaniel Glazer

Michel Foucault and the neo-liberal rot that is in America.

I am almost done reading the book “The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution.” In this book the authors, Mitchell Dean and Daniel…

Dec 2, 2022 • Nathaniel Glazer

June 2022

Fundamentalism, Politics, Scientism, and Nietzsche's nihilism

I personally go to an Episcopalian church here in Sacramento, and I was raised as a Lutheran in Northern California.

Jun 7, 2022 • Nathaniel Glazer

March 2022

John Keat's negative capability, ambiguity, and Ash Wednesday mortality

John Keats was a poet who lived from 1795 to 1821, so really not a very long time.

Mar 2, 2022 • Nathaniel Glazer

December 2021

Heidegger's Das Man, William James, and the Three Kings of Dissent; Hedges, West, and Chomsky,

One of my favorite philosopher’s Martin Heidegger had a concept that he named “Das Man,” or the “The They,” in his book Being and Time.

Dec 16, 2021 • Nathaniel Glazer

November 2021

Nihilism and politics as religion

Recently one of my favorite contemporary journalists, Matt Taibbi, wrote an article about how the news and politics is America’s new religion and how we…

Nov 21, 2021 • Nathaniel Glazer