https://wargr.com/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/mercy-of-death/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/mercy-of-death.jpg The Strange Mercy of Death The Strange Mercy of Death, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/mercy-of-death-og.jpg The Strange Mercy of Death social card Most people treat death as a distant abstraction. I met it at fifteen, and it never went back to being an idea. https://wargr.com/knowing-yourself/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/knowing-yourself.jpg The side effect of knowing yourself The side effect of knowing yourself, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/knowing-yourself-og.jpg The side effect of knowing yourself social card The most confident people I have known never seem particularly interested in the question of how they look. That, it turns out, is the trick. https://wargr.com/babylons-whore/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/babylons-whore.jpg The Whore of Babylon Was Always Us The Whore of Babylon Was Always Us, an essay by Michael Wargr. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/babylons-whore-og.jpg The Whore of Babylon Was Always Us social card I thought religion was a trick for gullible people. Then the old stories started looking less like superstition and more like a report on the crowd, and on me. https://wargr.com/slaughterhouse/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/slaughterhouse.jpg How we choose the slaughterhouse Meat on a table in a slaughterhouse, matching an essay on conformity and herd mentality. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/slaughterhouse-og.jpg How we choose the slaughterhouse social card An essay on herd mentality, conformity, propaganda, and the invisible ways people choose the stories that lead them. https://wargr.com/corruption/2026-07-12 https://wargr.com/assets/articles/corruption.jpg How fear turns the good in us into corruption A solitary figure in a dark room, matching an essay on fear, integrity, and corruption. https://wargr.com/assets/articles/corruption-og.jpg How fear turns the good in us into corruption social card An essay on corruption, moral compromise, fear, integrity, and how good people become what they once opposed.