Siddharth MehrotraAITA for getting ghosted by childhood chum?The popular subreddit, “Am I the Asshole?” is, as its moderators say, “a catharsis for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us, and a…4 min read·May 24, 2022----
Siddharth MehrotraBenefit of the Doubt: friendships’ stitch in time.I recently read a piece called The Straight Girl’s Secret (https://thenib.com/i-was-the-straight-girls-secret/), in which an affair of the…3 min read·Dec 31, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraTolkien, the first Christian dinosaur mythologist?To begin with, a dinosaur mythologist is any author or illustrator who writes, paints, sculpts, etc. about dinosaurs, and in so doing…3 min read·Oct 26, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraThe shocks of early human historyThe shocks of early human history, as discussed by the leads of my novella Philosophy & College Life:4 min read·Jun 30, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraLast Straws: irrational response to international disasters in the early 21st Century.It may seem inexplicable, even incredible to many, that the multitude of American citizens, and an even larger majority in the U.S…3 min read·May 31, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraHear me out: why Whedon & Snyder’s Justice League isn’t a bad movieLet the present author preface this review, with the remark that I have no shrift whatever for inconsistent critics who demand ‘complex…3 min read·Apr 5, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraFair Maids & Faithful Knights: a survey of gender-dynamics in Malory’s “Knight of the Kitchen”…The legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, are among the most recognizable of Occidental myths. The very names of…5 min read·Mar 12, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraCredibility v. Incredulity: the case forever dismissed, and yet never closedIn Dias’ article in the Feb. 2021 edition of Mother Jones magazine…3 min read·Feb 24, 2021----
Siddharth Mehrotra(Re-)Inventing the Wheel: how to think about any death but our own.Death, we might say, lies heaviest on the living. The dead, as Socrates wisely observes (Apologia), are either wholly unconscious, or…4 min read·Feb 2, 2021----
Siddharth MehrotraChristmas Specialties: comments on the origins of the modern world’s most universal holiday.It is a phrase much despised by historians, and yet quite nearly true, “The origins of this are lost in the mists of Time”; in this case…4 min read·Dec 21, 2020----