Together, Apart
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What do all these "Babel moments" have in common? If we recognize the moment while we are in it, can we do something to change our course, to make the outcome less... Read more.
Too Big to Fail
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Whether on the plains of Shirah or in a lab in Marburg, faith in human technology outpaces our ability to focus and mold it. The “We can, so we will” attitude... Read more.
Babel Moments
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We are more disconnected than ever before and we have lost our ability to communicate with each other. And yet our destruction is well masked in the pretence of... Read more.
In Plain Sight
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One of the things we have learned is just how much regulatory capture factored into the COVID response, how economics turned vaccine technology into an industrial... Read more.
Our Last Innocent Moment Is Our First Step Forward
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When the history of our time is written, this period will be a case study for students of global corruption, classical tragedies, and mass psychosis, and we’ll... Read more.
Black Swan, White Swan
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Whether or not Covid was a true black swan event is not my focus here. I'm interested in Taleb’s more general epistemological point that what catches us off guard... Read more.
Hope and Moral Repair
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It is all too easy, when in the middle of a crisis, to give up. But to fix what ails us, we don’t have to fix everything in one moment or one action. We only need... Read more.
Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry, Forever?
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Please don’t think that, to be good, you need to be quiet and agreeable and complacent. And please don’t think that any of this will be easy. But it will be... Read more.
The Bison Advantage
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How will you respond next time you face a moral challenge? Will you walk headfirst into the storm like the bison or turn and drift with it? Have you used the time... Read more.
The Renaissance of Our Hearts
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Little acts of kindness mean more than we thought and losing them means more than we might have realized. It also means we are in desperate need of a kindness renaissance.... Read more.
In the Shadow of Oedipus
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I want to take the thesis of the last essay a step further and explore what might be causing our collapse. Is it a coincidence that we are suffering in so many different... Read more.
3, 2, 1, Timber
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The old distinction between civilization and barbarism has taken on a new form in the 21st century. It is from within our own “civilized” culture that emerges... Read more.