Let’s be suspicious of what some people call the “passion paradigm” of work, precisely because it creates new obligations on the hyper-individuated self.

This is not a hard call:

“Regional...

The Word of the Day, at this particular Pee-Wee's Playhouse, is "institutions."  Actually, it's a word of many days.  This is a bit gnomic, but hey, it's my blog, I'll gnomicize if I want to.

Hill...

Links for Monday!  Nothing special--just some interesting stuff.

Good idea: post less, chat more, for a better internet experience.

Interesting on “the demographic cliff” facing American...

Nikole Hannah-Jones and “The 1619 Project” have provoked a lot of interesting debate about American history. She and it have also provoked a lot of freakout on the part of many conservatives. This...

I've got a lot!  These are good; highly recommended.

If this article is anything to go by, two things seem to unite the people in this new journal: an ideological hostility to, even ressentiment abou...

Just a few things, gathered in the past few months, for your reflection, if you want them.

Honestly, I love the early morning.  These days (call it middle age?), I usually get up before everyone else...

Yeah, this. Two days in a row, soon I'll be saying "I'm just takin' it one day at a time."  Anyway, here's today's news:

This is a fascinating piece, noting that Pope Francis has been voluble in...

Hi everyone!  Or, anyone.  Apologies for the three-month hiatus.  There was nothing event-ish about the break, nothing dramatic, let alone traumatic, unless you count the pandemic, the warm, a very...

I'll start up again next week, I bet.  Merry Christmas!

Such a great piece by Jon Malesic, on the nature of discourse around “burnout” and what the phenomenon of burnout can tell us about how hard...

Good stuff below:

“In April 1864, as the Senate moved to approve the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd in Baltimore about this question of...