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Philosophy
Applied philosophy: Stoics, anarchists, physicists, and mythologists, pressed into service on the question of how to live.
Holidays
Noam Chomsky Day
Noam Chomsky‘s legacy is vital as we enter the final years of the first quarter of the 21st century
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Economics
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?
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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?
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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.
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Zen
Sleeping With Ants
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone.
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Zen
Tidying up with Zen
Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Hard Work: The Greatest Con
You’ve heard it before: Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with themselves. But is this really true? You’ve heard it all before: “Hard work is good for you. The people who don’t work are lazy. Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with
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Zen
Aikido and Zombies
Aikido can change your life… and the world. “The purpose of the Art of Peace is to fashion sincere human beings; a sincere human being is one who has unified body and spirit, one who is free of hesitation or doubt.
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3-D Empathy
How we can become better empaths in a thoughtless age — for the betterment of ourselves and everyone around us.
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The Importance of Being Vulnerable
When you ask someone what it means to be vulnerable they oftentimes start talking about it as a synonym for weakness.
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