The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek – a review
Some books are like fireworks; dazzling for a moment, quickly forgotten. And then there are the ones like The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek’s slim, serious warning…
Social and Self-Help
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The Everything Man Is No Man At All
I tell you, brother, I’ve seen the kind of man who says yes to everything. I’ve watched him wobble like a drunk at a moral crossroads, arms…
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Apathy is the True Measure of Poverty
In the course of my life, I have witnessed the broad spectrum of human fortune. I have seen men adorned with riches, and others clothed in rags.…
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The Trojan Horse of Surveillance Capitalism
Once upon a time, we paid for things with money. Now, increasingly, we pay with ourselves; our thoughts, our habits, our desires, our attention. The modern economy…
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Why Some Co-ops Fail—and How Meaningful Success Keeps Yours Alive
In our co-op, we have learned something simple but often forgotten. People stay motivated when their efforts matter. Not in some abstract sense or as part of…
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The Interconnectedness of Human Action
There exists, beneath the surface of daily life, a silent architecture of cause and effect; a structure so persistent and so subtle that we are seldom aware…
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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…