Not Food, But Grace
There’s a strangeness in the act of giving. The gesture may appear noble to the onlooker, and indeed, it often feels noble at the outset. We tell…
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The Bare Mind
I do not know if such a mind exists. But I believe in the ache for it. In our strange world of echoing memes and flickering screens,…
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Charity or Ego Trip? Rethinking What It Means to Do Good
There’s a particular kind of feeling that comes with realizing you’ve been wrong about something for years. Not the minor kind, like discovering that capers aren’t baby…
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“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand – a review
Few novels inspire as much fervent devotion, or outright disdain, as Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s sprawling, polemical ode to individualism and unrestrained capitalism. Published in 1957, this…
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The Black Hole of Social Media: How We Got Sucked In and Forgot the Way Out
There is a moment, perhaps, that’s familiar to most of us now: you pick up your phone to check a message or glance at the weather, and…
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Simone Weil’s “The Need for Roots” – in her own words?
The destruction of roots is the deepest affliction of the modern soul. The uprooted man is deprived not only of material sustenance but of the vital nourishment…
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A Master Class in Macroeconomics Disguised as a Warning
In How Countries Go Broke, Ray Dalio does what he has always done best: distill the complexities of global finance into a coherent, almost narrative logic. Dalio,…
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The Century-Long Prisoner’s Dilemma That Now Threatens Us All
For the last hundred years, humanity has been caught in a slow-motion game of the prisoner’s dilemma; and the stakes have never been higher. First formalized in…
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Is There Meaning in Milk
There was a time when a man knew the name of the cow that gave him his milk. He knew the row where his tomatoes grew. He…
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The Landfill Economy and the Death of Meaning
We live in a time of abundance, or so we’re told. Never in human history have so many goods been so widely available, so cheaply produced, and…