One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite the [...] Read more

A near-unanimous sense of deep wrongness pulses beneath our daily lives—not a single problem, but an undercurrent of weariness that drains the soul more than the body, a vertigo born of racing [...] Read more

Picture yourself at the top of a hill. You’ve just been hiking for an hour without any breakfast. From your backpack you pull out a piece of stale bread, some sweaty olives, cheese, and whatever [...] Read more

By Maria Popova “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,” James Baldwin observed as he offered his lifeline for the hour of despair. “I am aware that [...] Read more

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity Click here to read article [...] Read more

Roger Berkowitz, 08-31-2024 The basic experience underlying totalitarianism, the experience that continues today to make it likely that totalitarianism remains a constant concern, is loneliness, an [...] Read more

Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World Posted on April 28, 2025, by George Tsakraklides Click here to read Although society at large will never find the courage to acknowledge its [...] Read more

Click here to read As the US becomes an authoritarian dictatorship wielding all instruments of fear it possibly can, reports in mainstream news networks have begun flooding in of tourists with valid [...] Read more

Read here Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are [...] Read more

Many see the Industrial Revolution as its own kind of Renaissance, which enabled, over the past 300 years, an accumulation of wealth that the world has never before seen. Yet, industrialization and [...] Read more