Culture
Essays and musings on philosophy, literature, and culture.
Essays & Musings
1922: Criteria of Value (All Souls #2)
Language lies at the heart of a thriving civilization. A society that cannot sustain reasonable discourse is a society marching blindly to its own demise.
Death for Breakfast: A Morning’s Thoughts on Mortality and Aging
Do we have a word in English to describe the sudden and unexpected sensation of your own inevitable mortality?
How to Live Better: Expand Your Vocabulary
A broad vocabulary broadens one’s ability to recognize, taste, savour, and delight in the abundance of a nuanced existence, to feel more deeply, to live more richly.
1988: Representation (All Souls #1)
To believe in the nobility of humanity is to believe that each individual has the freedom to choose, the power to change, and the responsibility for their actions.
What Does It Mean to Be Cultured?
To be cultured is to recognize that you are but one link in a long chain of history, and to accept that although culture is your birthright, it is not personal property but a heritage of humanity.
Why I Read the Classics—and Why You Should Too
In a world marked by wars and protests, social transformation and technological progress, civic disunity and political polarization, why bother reading Plato or Petrarch or Locke?
How to Improve Your Life With a Life Handbook
A life handbook is the compass that orients your life and aligns your actions with your dreams.
Becoming Human: A Case for Poetic Boredom
To sensationalize boredom is to experience life in the margins. There is exquisite wonder in such small moments that comprise our lives.
Why I’ve Chosen to Work Through the All Souls Examination Questions
We are the most literate generation of all of history, yet our literacy is ill-used.
The Consolation of History
Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Though the poem may be tragic, there is nonetheless something consolatory in rhyme itself—the realization that tragedy is not a solitary experience.
When I Say I Am a Feminist: A Clarification
Misconstruing the idea of feminism appears to be a pastime of choice for a disconcerting number people across the Western world. “Feminist” is treated like
On a Receipt
I found an old receipt in my book today, it fell out as I was flipping past Seymour Krim’s essay on the failed businesses of his siblings, or something like that. This receipt, you must know, was not my own.
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