Living a Life Out of Context: Why Misfits, Exiles, and Outsiders Might Save Us
There are those who seem born already a few degrees off from the compass that most people follow. They live out of step, out of time, out…
Social and Self-Help
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The Cost of the Mask
We are what we pretend to be. The trouble is, we have gotten very good at pretending. We wear the mask of confidence when we are unsure,…
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Helen’s Razor and the Tragedy of Idiotic Choices
I feel like there is a certain comfort in believing in malevolence. To think that some cabal of conniving overlords is plotting the slow erosion of our…
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When Truth Appears Between Sips of Beer
It was one of those accidental evenings that becomes permanent in memory, not because anything grand happened, but because something true did. I was sitting in a…
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We Will See: A Story About My Ankle, a Hamster Funeral, and the Entire Meaning of Life
When I was nine years old, I broke my ankle falling off a tire swing in my friend Dustin’s backyard. It happened on a Tuesday, which meant…
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When Nothing Feels True Anymore, Try This
There is a room in the mind where silence waits. It is not a library. It is not a church. It is not the glowing blue rectangle…
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The Last Private Thing We Own
By now, most of us have accepted the quiet absurdity of our days: we speak to glowing rectangles, sleep beside them, wake to their alarms, carry them…
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Confession: I Might Be a Gold-Digger (Just Not for Money)
There was a time when I thought gold-digging was a simple, well-defined sport, like tennis or synchronized swimming. You could spot the players easily: usually a young…
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Why Human Society Needs Money to Function—and Ants Don’t
Step outside on a spring afternoon and crouch beside a crack in the sidewalk. Watch long enough and you’ll witness a miracle of coordination; an ant colony…
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The Creature from Jekyll Island; by G. Edward Griffin – a review
There are books that enter the public square with a quiet nudge, and there are books that kick the door wide open. G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature…