Month: August 2026
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On Loss, Resentment, and the Question of Forgiveness
Why does the injured psyche choose the heat of resentment over the emptiness of grief? Drawing on André Green’s “dead mother” and Robert Karen’s work on forgiveness, this essay traces how unmourned childhood loss becomes the architecture of adult bitterness—and why to blame a parent is still to have one. Forgiveness, it argues, is not only a virtue, but a…
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Who Is He? — Rereading Plato’s Gorgias.
Sophistry is speech between two: whoever prevails is right. Philosophy introduces a third term—truth, justice, the Good—that neither speaker controls, and before which both must answer. Plato’s Gorgias stages this difference through Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles. Its diagnosis reaches our own moment, where algorithms, polling, and AI have perfected persuasion by quietly removing the third from public speech.