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When Explaining Makes Things Worse
We often use lengthy explanations after a mistake to manage our own discomfort. But true accountability requires concrete steps, not just eloquent…
Sep 14
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Kanav Jain
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Ethics Is What Gets You Fired
Stop searching for an ethical AI CEO. The job is impossible. The problem isn't a lack of individual virtue, but a system that makes virtue a liability.
Sep 13
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Kanav Jain
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How I Learned to Laugh at 'Inevitable'
The powerful have always used the language of weather and physics to enforce their will. The best counter isn't a better argument—it's seeing the…
Sep 12
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Kanav Jain
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The Age of Fact-Checking Is Over
For more than a decade, we've treated misinformation as a problem of persuasion. Fact-checks, media literacy drives, AI detection tools all assume that…
Sep 9
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Kanav Jain
Can we build durable institutions without domination?
Anarchism is often described like a bonfire: a political philosophy of no institutions, no coordination, just a perpetual “no.” But the anarchist claim…
Sep 7
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Kanav Jain
Wound Worship: how harm becomes holy to silence dissent
Sacralization is power’s aftermarket armor. It’s the trick that makes the preventable untouchable.
Sep 6
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Kanav Jain
Why Systems Lean on Our Backs: The Politics of Load Bearing
The political question isn’t if shocks arrive, but where the load lands. This essay reframes “policy” as applied physics—and legitimacy as a system’s…
Sep 5
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Kanav Jain
An Unwitting Accomplice
How hostile systems draft us into our own denial
Sep 4
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Kanav Jain
August 2025
In Praise of Fickleness
“Fickleness” is not always a moral failure; it’s fair to oscillate between incompatible demands.
Aug 30
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Kanav Jain
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"What I said came out wrong."
On Revision Privilege, a system that quietly distributes grace to the powerful while demanding finality from everyone else
Aug 28
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Kanav Jain
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"I ruin everything!"
Everywhere you look, people are proving how sorry they are through self-condemnation.
Aug 26
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Kanav Jain
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Against Technocracy
Resisting rule by expertise is not anti-science or anti-technology; it is a defense of democracy
Aug 22
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Kanav Jain
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