“The Dawn of Everything” Upends the Script—With a Smile
Every few years, a book arrives claiming to rewrite history. Most fade quietly into the footnotes. The Dawn of Everything, by the late anthropologist David Graeber and…
Social and Self-Help
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The Weight of Possession, the Lightness of Being
In the quiet of dawn, when the world is stripped bare, a man stands alone. He owns nothing but the breath in his lungs and the thoughts…
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The New Chain: Debt as Modern Servitude
There was once a time when a man worked for a company not only from dawn to dusk, but in sleep as well. His house was built…
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“Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era” by Tom Webb – a review
The economic engine of modern capitalism has long been fueled by a simple mantra: growth is good, more is better, and enough is never really enough. But…
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On the Commerce of Human Souls
At the heart of our modern economy lies a quiet brutality, too ordinary to stir outrage and too abstract to touch the conscience. It is called labor…
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“Ghosts, All the Way Down”
At first, there was only metal. No breath. No blood. Just the low hum of circuitry and the flash of electrons following rules. The Makers called themselves…
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How and Why to Demonetize Your Life
To “demonetize” your life might sound like an abstract or even overly idealistic thing, but at its heart, it’s about taking a step back and reconsidering what…
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“The Chaos Machine” by Max Fisher Offers a Chilling Look at the Algorithms That Ate the World
In The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher pulls off something rare: a work of tech journalism that manages to feel both deeply human and apocalyptically urgent. Part investigation,…
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Turning Hours into Opportunity: How a Time Co-op is Changing Lives in San Antonio
In San Antonio, Texas, a quiet shift may be starting to take place. Amid the nation’s 7th largest city, where money dictates most exchanges, a group of…
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The Movement That Remembers: On Time Banking and the Recovery of Human Meaning
By one who still believes in grace… There is no word more profaned in modern discourse than “community.” It is whispered like a prayer in marketing campaigns,…