AI and the Desire to Think

The coming cognitive divide

Jul 7 • Matt Cardin

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Can a Serious Writer Use AI Without Losing His Soul?

A meditation on AI, authorship, and the line between assistance and abdication

Jul 6 • Matt Cardin

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June 2026

The Living Dark Reader, No. 2

A quarterly companion for deep reading. In this issue: the autumn longing, selfhood, language, and the hidden life of experience.

Jun 15 • Matt Cardin

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Alan Watts on Hints of a Forgotten Paradise

Transcendental longing and the memory of home

Jun 10 • Matt Cardin

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May 2026

The Monastery of Your Life

Morris Berman and the case for the solitary monastic ideal

May 18 • Matt Cardin

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An Unfinished Story That I Don't Remember Writing

A fragment of weird religious horror from my archives

May 1 • Matt Cardin

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April 2026

The Best Thomas Ligotti Story You’ve Probably Never Read

An uncollected meditation on existence, nonexistence, and the horror in between

Apr 14 • Matt Cardin

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March 2026

Writing from the Source: Talking to Joanna Penn About Creativity

My interview for The Creative Penn podcast on the muse and the creative unknown

Mar 30 • Matt Cardin

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Be the Writer You Are

Twain, Lovecraft, and the case against universal rules of style

Mar 26 • Matt Cardin

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The Living Dark Reader, No. 1

A new quarterly companion for deep reading.

Mar 16 • Matt Cardin

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The Dangerous Question

Socrates, nonduality, and the inquiry that ends your life

Mar 8 • Matt Cardin

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Can Social Media Be Redeemed?

A closed game of engagement that plays us

Mar 6 • Matt Cardin

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