The Escape Plan: A Playbook for Getting Out of Wage Slavery
There’s a moment (maybe it hits you while you’re microwaving your third sad lunch of the week, or when your boss sends a 4:59 p.m. email titled…
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To Hell with Meaning
Nietzsche said you can endure any what if you have a why. Frankl said man is driven by the search for meaning. I say they both drank…
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Book Review: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein has written a work of such moral urgency and intellectual clarity that it resists being shelved alongside other political nonfiction. It…
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Well Adjusted to a Bad Situation
The man at the bar had a steady hand. That was more than could be said for most of them. He lifted his glass, took a sip,…
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The Obligation of Dignity
It is one of the peculiar tragedies of modern civilization that we have learned to calculate with astonishing accuracy the orbits of planets and the decay of…
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Beyond Profit: Building an Economy That Works for People
For centuries, the driving force of economic progress has been the pursuit of profit. Factories churned, assembly lines hummed, markets expanded, and societies reaped the material rewards…
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The Misery of Minor Inconveniences
It is a curious feature of modern life, particularly in the affluent portions of the world, that comfort has not engendered contentment, nor abundance brought with it…
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The Library, the Fire, and the Flicker of Hope
T.S. Eliot, not often accused of excessive optimism, once remarked that the very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for…
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Build Your Dream or Dig Another Man’s Ditch
A man wakes up early. He puts on his boots. He eats his breakfast. He walks out the door. He goes to work. He does this every…
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The Other Kind of Safety Net We Keep Forgetting
When we talk about safety nets in America, the conversation almost always swings back to money. Retirement accounts, emergency savings, insurance policies, college funds; we build them,…