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Life-by-Bromide

Life-by-Bromide

What if all conventional advice is bad advice? We don’t live in a one-size-fits-all world. Yet we have enjoyed this 40-year bull market in bonds, populations raging up to 8 billions, a permanent plateau of American Order ambrosia. And so we thought everyone was the...
Love and Strife

Love and Strife

The Great Divide All of animal nature is divided in two – those who are naturally herd animals and those who are loners, sheep and cows, or hawks and wolves. This divide physically and psychologically runs through humankind as well. Some choose the fearful and...
The Promethean Future of AI

The Promethean Future of AI

“In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.” -Marx We live in the midst of a dangerously false dialectic, funneled into choosing between alternatives that are in fact fundamentally...
Shadowline

Shadowline

On the verge of history’s first wave of globalization, Victorian imperialists venturing into foreign and undiscovered countries had to maintain an ever-deeper connection to the ways of the motherland. The temptations of the opium to wash away the grueling and the...
American Colossus

American Colossus

“In the thought of tomorrow there is a power to upheave all the creeds of the nations, and marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has depicted. Every man is not so much a workman in the world, as he is a suggestion of the (which) he should be. Men walk as...