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Will the Concept of Free Will Change in the Manner of Whale or Witch?

How Much More Possible is a Unicorn Than a Vampire?

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem - Part 5 of 5

Halfway Twice is Not Yet Once

Je Suis Plus Radical Que Toi

“Degree being vizarded / The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.”

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem — Part 4 of 5

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem — Part 3 of 5

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem — Part 2 of 5

Summary, Paragraph by Paragraph, of "Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem"

Study Guide for “Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem: On What We Know but Do Not Believe”

A Bibliography of Sorts for "Sleepwalking Toward Bethlehem"

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem — Part 1 of 5

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem

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"Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem,” by David J. Frost, published in The Missouri Review, July 2026, page 2

Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem

“Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem,” by David J. Frost, published in The Missouri Review, July 2026

"Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem," by David J. Frost, published in The Missouri Review, July 2026

"Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem,” by David J. Frost, published in The Missouri Review, July 2026

"Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem," by David J. Frost, was published in The Missouri Review, July 2026

What a Beautiful Earth-Turning Tonight!

"Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem," essay by David J. Frost

BTS: Gronk, the Deterministic Caveman

BTS: Ted Chiang's Story "The Predictor" Dramatizes the Libet Experiments and Free Will Denial

Audio Version of "Sleepwalking Towards Bethlehem"

BTS: The Ancient Greeks had No Concept of Free Will Because They had No Concept of Will

I have an essay forthcoming in The Missouri Review!

Anything’s Possible: Cartesian Epistemology Is Behind Conspiracy Thinking

Two Failed Reconstructions

BTS: Michael Frede says the ancient Greeks had no concept of free will because they had no concept of will

The skull face trick

BTS: Is the folk naturally compatibilist?

I have an essay forthcoming in The Missouri Review!

Armchair Vertigo

Derrida on Islam and Western Democracy, a Book Review

Adam Gopnik writes that the argument between Dan Dennett and Sam Harris “is worth having”—and “in some sense it’s the only argument worth having.”

Free will denial is almost a movement right now.

Behind the scenes of writing the free will essay for The Missouri Review

Je suis plus radical que toi.

HOW IT WORKS

I write about what we know but do not believe.

For my students: "Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone," Nietzsche wrote.

FIRST VISIT? START HERE

Rilke: "You must change your life." But wait, why?

The Italian Alps in High Resolution

Essays on the Scientific Revolution, a 6-part Series

On the Genealogy of Happiness

Not, "Is there no free will," but, "What if there weren't? What would that be like?"

Halfway Twice is Not Yet Once

Pre-Galilean Ballistics Drawings

Two podcast hosts discuss my Nietzsche article

FIRST VISIT? START HERE

Selected Writings

Thinking Out Loud with Others

Gnosticism and the Smoking Gun

Rilke: "You must change your life"

The Universe As We Find It

The Dangers of Credulity