Four Pieces: An Essay, an Interview, and Two Philosophy Articles
On Peter Thiel and René Girard, Postliberalism, Natural Necessity and Happiness
One of my goals for 2026 is to get this substack going. While a weekly dispatch remains beyond my current bandwidth, a monthly (at least) installment feels feasible. Most of my writing in english is, at the moment, strictly academic, so it should be fun to experiment in other genres and registers with this substack.
In the meantime, I thought it appropriate to share some of my pieces that have appeared in other publications.
The first are a couple of articles that Stephen G. Adubato has kindly accepted to publish at Cracks in Postmodernity, both of which seem to have resonated widely there, becoming some of their most read posts: an interview with John Milbank on how postliberalism was coopted by the right, and an essay (in two parts), co-written with Maurício G. Righi, on René Girard's conception of the apocalypse and Peter Thiel's surreptitious instrumentalization of it.
The other two articles appeared at Patrick Flynn’s The Journal of Absolute Truth. I wrote both during my MA in philosophy at Central European University, so they are, admittedly, a bit more stylistically arid and academic than the other pieces. Still, if you’re somehow interested in the metaphysical problems with the essentialist view of natural necessity, you should like this; and if you’re into happiness, which is more likely, you should read my other essay on why Aristotelian eudaimonia is the best theory of the happy life.
See you again soon.