Moral Letters
039 - On Drinking Deeply - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Think of a summary as but a sip, nourishing if it comes after a full meal, but leaving you empty if you have consumed nothing before it.
Latest
Newsletters
Are You Spreading Propaganda Knowingly Or Unknowingly? (Newsletter 019)
The problem of being influenced by what your fellow citizens think was just as prominent in the Stoics' time.
Moral Letters
038 - On A Good Talk - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Give me persons of any age who have made their own choice to learn, not because anyone compels them to, but because they believe it will bring them something of value.
Moral Letters
037 - On Keeping Your Promise - Moral Letters for Modern Times
It should give you pause to consider that the great many who think themselves in possession of their faculties are in fact being mindlessly swept along.
Newsletters
You're Not Allowed To Disagree With Me! (Newsletter 018)
A democratic society's commitment to freedom of speech cannot be fair-weather only, dependent on whether the speech aligns with the consensus.
Moral Letters
036 - On Defining Your Own Success - Moral Letters for Modern Times
To follow your own mind, especially when it directs a course that goes against all others, is the greatest achievement.
My Two Cents
Hold Fast To Truth
Holding fast to truth is not an easy path, but it is the least difficult of all other alternatives. This is a tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1974 essay "Live Not By Lies"*
Moral Letters
035 - On Like Minds - Moral Letters for Modern Times
The coward looks on and says all is good; it is the hero who says your ship is veering off course. Watch carefully your instinct to reward the first one and punish the second.
Newsletters
How Will You Be Remembered? (Newsletter 017)
If you would not be judged by your worst moment, do not be quick to judge others for theirs.
Moral Letters
034 - On A Successor's Success - Moral Letters for Modern Times
If the sincere student is not ready, the teacher is not done.
Paradise Found
Paradise Found - Interim Update
My wife and I are trying really hard not to sabotage our move back to the U.S. by making any assumptions about what it's going to be like.
Moral Letters
033 - On Instagram-Worthy Quotes - Moral Letters for Modern Times
You mustn’t take the headline for the whole of the message, but rather read on.