Archive - Stoic Observations

Transcendant Culture

More than flavor. More than mimetic.

Jun 24 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Why I Fought Woke

The fraught dynamism of intellectual discovery.

Jun 23 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Transhumanist AI Fiction

Adrian Tchaikovsky's at it again

Jun 19 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Grok Stoic Observations

A very good generated introduction to this work.

Jun 14 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

The Iranian Nuclear Annex

My personal collection over 12 years.

Jun 13 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Minimal Group Paradigm

Tajfel, Janis and Groupthink

Jun 12 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

A Woke Post-Mortem and what's next.

Jun 10 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

And the discipline of recognizing the moment.

Jun 5 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Negative Liberty in Stoic Marriage

Never always. Always sometimes.

Jun 4 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

The Last Action Hero

What AI, Democracy, Hollywood, Videogames and Tom Cruise have in common.

Jun 3 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

Launching FBT Voices Microsites!

A unique new way to explore the work of heterodox black thinkers

Published on Journal of Free Black Thought • Jun 2

May 2025

Rent Seeking & Inequality

Snappy answers to stupid questions.

May 30 •

Michael David Cobb Bowen

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