Essay
Problems of Friendship
what does it mean to have friends?
Odin Halvorson
Universal Income is a Right
It’s also the way we save democracy Did you know that UBI was almost signed into law in the ‘60s? This is an idea whose time as most certainly come. The question is: do we have enough democracy left to make it happen?
Essay
We’re Going on a Stag Hunt
A storytelling approach to economics Cooperation is the best possible solution, so why are humans so frequently bad at it?
Essay
Potentia Innocentiae: The Power of Innocence
Co-winner of the 2nd Annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award Surging against the impacted and ossified rules of the Old Order of “might makes right,” a massive wave of insightful thought is on the rise — worldwide.
Transportation
E-Bikes are Coming to Replace Your Car
Or they would be, if it weren’t for these obvious problems There are so many reasons to be excited about e-bikes — even if there are problems left to solve.
A Hundred and Fifty Bucks a Week
The Problem with Democrats (and politicians in general)
Books
“Becoming Superman” The Book All Writers Need to Read
and how the work of J. Michael Straczynski came into my life
Zen
Sleeping With Ants
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone.
We Owe the World our Attention
And our attention can change the world. Climate change, refugee crisis, nuclear proliferation — what if we could help change all this with one simple shift in our thinking?
Pop-Culture
Why We Need Hopeful Stories
Our salvation is in the hands of our storytellers.
History
The Cigarmakers of Cuba and the New Information Revolution
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ― Frederick Douglass Learning from past revolutions in information literacy, can we develop a model that suits the 21st century?
Essay
Freedom from Freedom (for Freedoms’s Sake!)
“Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.” ― Terry Pratchett This is about understanding that the individual is stronger if the whole is also stronger.