Mental Health
The Alienated Mind: Despair and the Modern Condition
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity lend credence to the antinatalist assessment of existence.
Editorial · June 24, 2026 · 15 min read
Essays
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Every essay we've published, newest first — antinatalism and philosophy alongside society, technology, spirituality, and mental health.
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Spirituality
Procreation and Theodicy: The Myth of the Loving Creator
To create new life under the banner of a loving God requires reconciling procreation with the problem of evil. This essay argues that theological defenses fail.
Editorial · June 23, 2026 · 15 min read
Philosophy
The Existentialist’s Gambit: Camus, Cioran, and the Refusal of Birth
While Camus and Sartre championed creating meaning in a meaningless world, their existential premises can be read as a profound critique of procreation itself.
Editorial · June 21, 2026 · 17 min read
Spirituality
Dukkha and the Asymmetry of Being
The Buddhist diagnosis of universal suffering (dukkha) finds a modern echo in antinatalism. An examination of their shared logic reveals the profound wisdom of non-birth.
Editorial · June 20, 2026 · 15 min read
Society
The Procreation Imperative: Pronatalism as Ideology
A critical examination of the cultural, religious, and economic machinery that frames procreation not as a choice, but as a default.
Editorial · June 18, 2026 · 15 min read
Theory & Speculation
The Non-Identity Problem and the Wrongness of Birth
Derek Parfit's non-identity problem challenges the coherence of antinatalism and procreative ethics by questioning whether it is possible to harm someone by bringing them into a life that is still worth living.
Editorial · June 17, 2026 · 15 min read
Philosophy
Antinatalism: Answering the Arguments Against
A philosophical examination of the most common objections to antinatalism and a critical assessment of their shortcomings in the face of existential reality.
Editorial · June 16, 2026 · 15 min read
Mental Health
The Despair of the Always-On: Alienation and the Modern Condition
In an age of unprecedented connectivity and material wealth, why are we lonelier and more desperate than ever? This essay explores the crisis of late modernity through the lens of philosophical pessimism and the antinatalist diagnosis.
Editorial · June 15, 2026 · 15 min read
Spirituality
The Creator's Cruel Gift: A Theodicy of Birth
Theological defenses of procreation fail to resolve the problem of evil, suggesting that if a creator exists, its gift of life is not one of love, but of unjustifiable risk and suffering.
Editorial · June 14, 2026 · 14 min read
Theory & Speculation
The Asymmetry of Suffering
A defense of the view that reducing suffering takes ethical priority over creating happiness. We explore the philosophical arguments for this moral asymmetry.
Editorial · June 13, 2026 · 17 min read