Skip to content
Most Recent:
  • An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically
  • On the Something There Is
  • Give Me Beta-modernism, Instead
  • S2E04 Does Metamodernism Actually Move Us Past Postmodernism? w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
  • Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part III
Erraticus

Erraticus

A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

  • Culture
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Psychology
  • Religion
  • Science & Tech
  • Society
  • About
    • Erraticus Reading Groups
    • Our Pragmatic Values
    • Recommended Readings
    • Submissions
  • Blog
  • Damn the Absolute!

Pandemic

COVID Pandemic Cash Benefits Erraticus Garrett Watson
Ideas Society 

Could the COVID Pandemic Spark a Cash Benefits Revolution?

March 15, 2021April 28, 2021 4 min read Garrett Watson Pandemic, Politics

For low-income families, the move toward direct, broad cash benefits might prove to have a long-lasting impact once the COVID pandemic ends.

Read More
Absurdism The Plague Albert Camus The Absurd COVID-19 Myth of Sisyphus
("Bring Out Your Dead" by Edmund Evans)
Essays Philosophy 

It’s All a Bit Absurd

February 15, 2021April 28, 2021 12 min read Derek Parsons Absurdism, Emotional Well-Being, Pandemic

Amidst a pandemic, Albert Camus’ novel The Plague suggests that we can find courage, community, and hope while embracing the absurd.

Read More
Fire Best Medicine Pandemic COVID Wildfires California
Essays Science & Tech 

Fire Is the Best Medicine

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 12 min read Charlie Deist Chaos, Environmentalism, Medicine, Nature, Pandemic

Just as apocalypse means revelation, so can fire be medicine and poison. “Fire medicine” confers benefits on individuals and communities.

Read More

A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

An online publication focused on human flourishing, taking a pragmatic approach to ideas. We care about ideas that help us to live well together, focusing on their practical consequences.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

  • About
  • Damn the Absolute!
  • Erraticus Reading Groups
  • Our Pragmatic Values
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended Readings
  • Student Submissions
  • Submissions

Erraticus in Your Inbox

Receive the most recent Erraticus essays, ideas, and podcasts directly in your inbox.
Loading

Copyright © 2016-2023 Erraticus. All rights reserved.