Time and Chance

A year ago, I started seeing this bumper sticker that keeps getting more popular. “Lions Not Sheep,” it says. At first I thought this…

We hang a low ceiling over our imagination, and live the rest of our lives cramped and hunched over.

Patriotic pride rejoices in your piece of a shared vision of the collective good. But what happens when your vision is not shared so…

don’t have a chicken coop or an imposing beard. I’ve never been hunting. I can barely keep succulents alive. I grew up in Philadelphia…

The beginning of wisdom is to know that you don’t know.

There is a decaying, deadening shallowness that seeps in during all this waiting. There is always something else coming. From year to year and…

Systems and individuals live in a symbiotic, cyclical relationship, where individuals shape systems, and then individuals are shaped by systems

By tethering absolute truth to the foresail of consensus, we have not thereby matured beyond the chaos of relativism. Rather, we are resigning ourselves…

Surely no one imagines that equity is some sort of nightmarish carbon copied cul-de-sac, where everyone lives in the same type of house, wears…