Archive - Folded Papers

A little pure gold

On the quality of truth.

Jun 11 • Gemma Mason

May 2026

Games, Metrics and the Meaning of Life

This book has made me consciously aware of a kind of beauty that I didn't have a name for.

May 28 • Gemma Mason

April 2026

Back Yard Fruit

An old post on gift economies and local quirks.

Apr 28 • Gemma Mason

Fulfilment, Faith, Feminism

Should religion be able to answer the problem at the heart of the second wave?

Apr 15

March 2026

Women's Rights have a Purpose. So does Liberalism.

It's time to remember what our principles are for.

Mar 3 • Gemma Mason

February 2026

For and Against Personality

Reading Simone Weil on a city street.

Feb 3 • Gemma Mason

January 2026

Time and Metaphysics

Galileo and Kant and Mach and Einstein

Jan 12 • Gemma Mason

November 2025

What Doesn't Kill You

Thrill-seeking and risk-taking in philosophy and in life

Nov 26, 2025 • Gemma Mason

October 2025

Science rightly impinges on Virtue Ethics

Iris Murdoch, C. P. Snow, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the role of Truth

Oct 29, 2025 • Gemma Mason

Live Chat: Existentialists and Mystics in the 21st Century

Many thanks to Mary Jane Eyre for hosting a live chat with me earlier today, and to the folks who showed up to watch.

Oct 15, 2025 • Gemma Mason

New essay at Wisdom of Crowds

on Quaker history, political violence, and what pacifism can teach us about liberalism.

Oct 6, 2025 • Gemma Mason

Boundaries of the Existential Self, Part 9

Oct 1, 2025 • Gemma Mason