Searching for a Loose Confidence
I do not want to live like this anymore, scripted and tight and rigid.
Society & Culture
Dead Malls and Dreams
Malls sold us canned fantasy. It could have been so different.
Anger Shows Us What We Protect
“What we usually call anger is only what is left of its essence when we are overwhelmed by its accompanying vulnerability."
What Elon Musk’s Baby Name Should Have Told Us
Names are significant for Elon Musk. And now, for all of us.
We Doth Protest—Not Enough
Hey, was that a police car honking in support? Mmm. Probably not.
Prejudice Is Natural
But why is race the dividing line?
Accelerationists? Goethe Warned Us
Past a certain speed, you only create chaos.
Frontenac and the French Revolution
Back then, luxury was there to be gawked at, fantasized about, tried on—and in time, marked way down, so that every once in a while, the goods were spread around.
From the War of 1812 to Booing the U.S. Anthem, a Line of Little-Known History
With the current spate of Canadian-led booing of the U.S. national anthem at professional hockey games, answered by American-led booing of the Canadian national anthem, these strains converge into parallel lines of history. One has already been written in the War of 1812, while the future of Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on Canadian goods and threats of annexation as “our 51st state” is anyone’s guess.
Time to Revise the Golden Rule
The most universal rule humanity ever came up with, the Golden Rule was intact for centuries...till now.