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The Arts Are Healthier Than You Think0
- Culture, Featured, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 27, 2026
In “A Pattern Language,” Christopher Alexander and his co-authors write that, when choosing a building site on a piece of land, most people pick the healthiest, sunniest, most beautiful place they can find – a mountain meadow, a clearing next to a stream. Alexander and his co-authors argue for the opposite. You should build on
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Books Are Inconvenient – and That’s a Good Thing0
- Culture, Family, Featured, Literature
- June 19, 2026
When I was a child, my parents built a library with 15-foot bookshelves, which, as it turned out, weren’t large enough to hold all my father’s books. His desk and armchair were surrounded by a forest of stacked volumes so that you had to navigate carefully to make it through the room. I caught his
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ChatGPT Made Me Superhuman0
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- March 23, 2026
I’ve never used ChatGPT. Nor have I used Claude, Grok, or Gemini. At least, I don’t think I have. Large language models, artificial intelligence, and technologies that use them are spreading so fast that it’s impossible for me to say with certainty that I’ve stayed away from them. But I’m doing my darnedest. The downsides
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Would You Survive the Worst Journey in the World?1
- Culture, Featured, History, Western Civilization
- November 21, 2025
One hundred and thirteen years ago, cars were not yet widespread. Airplanes were made of canvas and wood. Sir Edmund Hillary was still 40 years away from summiting Mount Everest. It was during this time that explorers began focusing on reaching the North and South Poles. The most famous story of polar exploration is that
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