You Can Pretend Your Way to the Flourishing Life
The Goodness of Faking Yourself Out
The Full Agrarian Letter
Professor Michael Jordan's Final Exam Letter to his Students
Professor Michael Jordan saw last week's post. He graciously provided me the original, full letter, with this note:
I taught a course on “The Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization” back in 1999, and while students were taking
Our Need for Self-Knowledge
One of man's deepest needs is the need for identity. We need to know who we are; we need to exist in our own eyes and other people's. That need for identity is so strong that it can lead to aberrations [an over-active left hemisphere giving
Optimal Work on Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture
No Woom for Wu? You Have Pwoblems
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 3
The Death of Literature?
If no one can focus long enough to read it, no one is going to pay for it. If no one pays for it, no one can write it. That, I believe, is the steady theme of this lovely literary essay that doesn't merely lament the state of
Why was the "Door" Concept Such a Big Thing in the 1960s?
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 1
Central Government Causes Loneliness . . . It Sure as Heck Can't Cure It
Loneliness is a major problem, but governments, especially central governments, can't fix it. In fact, they cause it: By taking over functions that have traditionally been performed locally, central governments have killed millions of the institutions and associations (families, communities, churches, service clubs . . . the "little platoons"
Paul Kingsnorth on the Collapse of the Left Hemisphere's Reign and the (Hopeful) Rise of the Tao
The global Machine is teetering, even as it clamps down on its citizenry in an attempt to tamp down unrest and rein in its own wanton destruction of creation and culture. A way of seeing that sets itself against what C. S. Lewis happily characterized as the Tao—the way
71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts
I’m a weak man.
Actually, “inconstant” is a better adjective.
Here’s the problem: I read an insightful passage, decide that I’ll apply it to my life, and then forget about it.
Fortunately, I realized this early in life. Specifically, back in the late 1980s when I was