Keeping ideas connected to reality so they can serve our lives in reality.
What Does A Rational Life Look Like?
In the first Reason for Living online seminar, Thomas Walker-Werth explores what living a life based on reason really looks like and how it can help you flourish and achieve happiness.
Creating and Climbing Your Ladder of Happiness
Clarify and pursue your own rational values to create a life of purpose, integrity, and lasting happiness.
God’s Garage Sale: The One Tool He Won’t Sell
God grew tired of managing countless tools to control the universe and decided to sell them all at a garage sale—except for one mysterious black box he refused to part with.
Judging People is Good For Them—and For You
A rational judgment of a relationship's value to you is based primarily on the person's character and moral values, not merely the material benefits of the relationship.
Facts Don’t Care About Your Faith, Feelings, or Consensus
Facts exist independently of faith, feelings, or consensus; only reason—grounded in observation, logic, and evidence—reveals what’s true and good, making rational thinking the path to both personal happiness and political freedom.
Altruism Has No Clothes
Altruism survives like the emperor’s fake clothes—propped up by fear, not reason. Strip it down, and all that’s left are logical fallacies.
Quitting Christianity Wasn’t the End—It Was the Start
I’m hosting a reading group on atheism, speaking at a conference, and studying to become an intellectual.
Rethinking Values to Make the Hard Decisions Easier
All of us face moments when our values appear to be in conflict. But what if there were a way to organize our values that meant we never needed to give up the things that really matter to us?
Determinism and Purpose in “Player Piano”
Unless the reader is deeply fascinated by changing views on technology, Player Piano will likely disappoint.