The Shape You Make While You’re Still Moving
They always talk about the thing. The painting. The book. The damn invention that whirs or chirps or tells you when your toast is done. People want…
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How to Ethically Triage Needs In Community Service Settings
Given that we exist in a world where resources are finite, yet human need is seemingly infinite, the challenge of triaging community needs becomes both a moral…
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“1984” by George Orwell: A Book or A Prophecy?
Revisiting 1984 today feels less like reading a novel and more like stumbling upon an old prophecy that’s somehow still unfolding. George Orwell’s bleak vision of a…
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“Stupidocracy”
In the year 2030, society had become a dim reflection of its former self, not through war or plague, but through a slow, relentless erosion of critical…
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Feeding the Landfill: How Globalized Food Systems Are Starving Us
Walk into any grocery store in America and you’ll see abundance. Aisles stacked high with everything from imported cheeses to out-of-season berries flown in from the other…
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The Moral Necessity of Social Stewardship
There exists a responsibility so fundamental to the integrity of our lives together that its absence renders society a mere machine—functioning, perhaps, but devoid of justice or…
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The Price of a Paycheck
A man wakes up before dawn, dresses in the dark, and walks out into the cold. He stands in the pale light of a bus stop or…
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The New Dharma Bums: Time, Mind, and the Last American Rebellion
So there they were again—ghosts of Neal and Allen and Jack—beat-eyed and barefoot in the halls of a digital inferno, walking soft along the edge of a…
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The Right Kind of Mistakes
You sit at the bar and watch the man at the other end. He is old. He drinks slowly. He does not look at anyone when he…
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The Rational Light of Cooperation
There are truths that lie so close to the heart of human experience that we pass them by daily without recognition. We step over them as one…