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February 22, 2026
Why people are craving a different kind of therapy right now
Internal Family Systems has become a wildly popular form of therapy over the past few years. Some of my friends swear by it. But after trying IFS myself and studying some of its underlying assumpti...
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February 15, 2026
One of the hottest therapy styles is scientifically shaky — so why does it seem to work?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...
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January 28, 2026
Claude has an 80-page “soul document.” Is that enough to make it good?
Chatbots don’t have mothers, but if they did, Claude’s would be Amanda Askell. She’s an in-house philosopher at the AI company Anthropic, and she wrote most of the document that tells Claude what s...
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January 27, 2026
Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...
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January 12, 2026
You want a baby. Is it ethical to choose surrogacy?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...
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December 17, 2025
The 2,000-year-old debate that reveals AI’s biggest problem
Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot about AI’s future. Their names were Eliezer and Yoshua. No, I’m not talking about Eliezer Yudkowsky, wh...
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December 14, 2025
How do you know if you’re wasting your life?
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that...
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December 2, 2025
How to break free of “money dysmorphia” — and 3 other tips on generosity
As the writer of an ethical advice column, I get a lot of questions from people who really want to do good in the world but are running into problems. They want to know how to give charity — and ho...
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