Archive - Maarten Boudry’s Substack

The Bar That Disappeared

How I Read A Confidential Memo on Live TV

Jun 5 • Maarten Boudry

May 2026

None So Blind as Those Who Refuse to See

The unspeakable horrors of October 7th

May 13 • Maarten Boudry

Are the Brooms Multiplying Yet?

The Sorcerer's Apprentice and the Evolution of AI

May 5 • Maarten Boudry

April 2026

What Did You Think Decolonisation Meant?

Decolonisation theory operates as a rigid, Manichaean ideology that neatly divides the world into evil perpetrators and innocent victims.

Published on Quillette’s Substack • Apr 22

Human Nature, Hash, and a Philosophical Smackdown

The Night Chomsky Met Foucault

Apr 6 • Maarten Boudry

March 2026

Why HAL 9000 Feared Death (and Real AIs Don’t)

How we project human instincts onto silicon minds

Mar 25 • Maarten Boudry

The Most Dangerous Idea In Academia

(and why researchers must be free to study it)

Mar 18 • Maarten Boudry

I Said Fallacies Don’t Exist. You Pushed Back.

The Fallacy Follow-Up.

Mar 2 • Maarten Boudry

February 2026

Why Fallacies Don’t Exist

(except in textbooks)

Feb 12 • Maarten Boudry

The Roots of Green Misanthropy

How the West Learned to Hate Humanity

Feb 7 • Maarten Boudry

January 2026

A Spiral of Silence

How Academia Enforces Orthodoxy

Jan 30 • Maarten Boudry

My Great-Grandmother Was Badass

Or: From Baby Boom to Baby Bust and Back

Jan 16 • Maarten Boudry