Alex O'Connor

“The excerpt discusses an example from Jonathan Haidt's book, which involves consequentialists and a theoretical scenario regarding incest.”

“Stendhal, the French author, travels around Europe.”

“So Philip was the first guy I had an entire conversation with about, and that was on his first book.”

“Dostoevsky, his Notes from the Underground, one of the most famous of his books because it's so short and easy to read, originally contained a chapter which essentially argued for the necessity of Christianity as Dostoevsky saw it.”