EssaysEvidence-BasedSlow

Notes on compassion
across species

Essays grounded in the moral psychology of speciesism, the empirical record on what changes dietary behavior, and the slow, unglamorous work of widening the circle. New writing roughly every two weeks.

· 7 min

What Actually Moves People Toward Compassion

Information is not the bottleneck — defenses are. On sanctuaries, identity-safe entry points, and the slow unglamorous work that produces durable change.

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· 7 min

The Carriage Horse Fight, Reframed

Why a fight with decisive welfare evidence keeps losing at the polls — and what the cities that won did differently.

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· 6 min

The Moral Psychology of Speciesism

Why facts about animal cognition don't change minds — and what does. A reading of the meat paradox, moral disengagement, and identity-protective cognition.

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