Johann Kurtz

1 month ago | becomingnoble.substack.com | Johann Kurtz |Chris Williamson |Louise Perry |Lyman Stone

Last week I offered a brief five-century history of marriage to explain the accelerating bifurcation of relationships into those which are highly generative and those which are never produce children (‘Don’t pay people to get married’). One aside in that piece which people seemed to enjoy was an explanation for the odd reason that women now give for not pair-bonding: …the most common explanation that women offer if you ask why they’re not getting married: ‘the men are awful and unworthy’.

2 months ago | becomingnoble.substack.com | Johann Kurtz |Nate Fischer |Auron MacIntyre |Tom Owens

In Meritocracy is not a good thing, I began a critical examination of the premises inherent in our modern system of ‘meritocracy’. Meritocracy is a concept which initially appears unassailable; should not the person who merits the reward receive it? And yet, as my friend recently pointed out in conversation with , this naive definition is tautological and therefore devoid of substantive content. By definition, merit implies that someone merits something.