In 1941, en route from a ghetto to a concentration camp in Ukraine, a Nazi soldier beat my grandfather to death. My father witnessed this murder. His is just one of millions of similar stories, of [...] Read more

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E.E. Cummings [...] Read more

Never explain yourself to those who live in the WORLD you have already surpassed — Yuval Harari We are living in a world where people demand explanations for everything — your choices, your [...] Read more

It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous. Click here to read the full article [...] Read more

How to Be a Happier Creature By Maria Popova It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out of the ocean 35 trillion yesterdays ago, small and [...] Read more

Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers “The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river,” Virginia Woolf wrote some years before she [...] Read more

A New Economy | Inside the Revolution You’re Not Hearing About Synopsis: About people making a fresh start towards building a new economy. Watch as several organizations move towards a more [...] Read more

Click here to access A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want One must know what one wants to be [...] Read more

themarginalian It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find [...] Read more

​The Marginalian is an online publication curated by writer Maria Popova, serving as a comprehensive record of her explorations into various facets of human thought and creativity. Established in [...] Read more