Reflections on books, the web, philosophy, and the quiet disciplines that hold a life together.
Ibn Khaldun was a 14th century Tunisian historian who straight up invented sociology in the 1300s, four hundred years before Auguste Comte got himself a Wikipedia page for it. The guy wrote The Muqaddimah (that’s “Int...
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The heart stops and the body does not know it yet. There is a lag. A delay between the moment of death and the moment every cell understands.
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This is the most uncomfortable post in this series. But it needs to be said (and you need to hear it): if you live in a country with chronic instability, you need an exit strategy.An exit strategy does not mean you ar...
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Audre Lorde was a Black lesbian feminist poet who said the things nobody had the guts to say. She called herself “a Black feminist lesbian mother poet” and refused to let anyone separate those words. They all mattered...
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Dr. Strange is one of my favorite Marvel superheroes. Something about the first part of the movie from the moment that I saw it just stood out to me and even more was what the Ancient One’s last words to Strange were....
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