Why Humans Shun the Humanities

History grows us up. And literature? It complicates the world for us. This is why we must kill the humanities.

Everything Addresses Us

“Tech is taking all the things you already disliked—triviality, noise, rudeness, interruption—and delivering them in a format you don’t have any control over.”

Secrets Are Buried in Our National Parks

The U.S. invented the national park—and ours hold mysteries of nature, of human eccentricity, of the past, of science and the supernatural....

When to Resist and How to Live Free

Living freely and intentionally is hard work. Every little decision winds up visible in the mosaic.

A Reason to Keep Going

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”~Viktor Frankl

What Well-Trained Women Can Learn from a Mischievous Pup

Willie knows exactly when to cuddle up or do the good-dog sit—and when he can get away with doing his own thing. But women never seem to get away with it for long.

Inefficiency Can Save You

Tiny, incapacitating acts of rebellion can keep you human. Or is this masochism?

Was St. Louis’s Hamlet to Be, or Not to Be?

After a string of near-disasters, Hamlet emerges unscathed.

Zora Neale Hurston Holds Up

"It’s so easy to make yo’self out God Almighty when you ain’t got nothin’ tuh strain against but women and chickens.”

How to Restore the Art of Conversation

“We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”

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