On the Virtue of Problem-Solving
There are many ways to describe the drama of human existence. Some say life is a journey, others a battle, a test, a trial, or a performance.…
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Finding Home in the Rubble: Andrew Lee’s “Defying Displacement” Charts a Quiet Rebellion
In Defying Displacement, Andrew Lee has written a book that feels both timely and timeless, a meditation on the nature of belonging that never slips into sentimentality,…
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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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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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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…
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In a Future Filled with Doubt, What Does It Mean to Be Human?: a book review
Neon Future, the brainchild of entrepreneur and self-proclaimed futurist Tom Bilyeu, isn’t so much a graphic novel as it is a manifesto in comic-book form. A manifesto…
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Saving Those Who Refuse to Swim
There comes a point when generosity begins to feel like self-harm. When the instinct to give, to lift, to offer, to patch the wounds of a society…