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  • What Kafka, COVID, and Music Have in Common

    What Kafka, COVID, and Music Have in Common1

    The last orchestral performance I went to was shortly after our local orchestra resumed limited, socially distanced performances after the initial shutdown. That was in November 2020, nearly two full months after Governor DeSantis had removed any official statewide restrictions. It was a Kafkaesque experience. At the dawn of the night, I felt really good about it.

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  • What Jordan Peterson’s Response to a Disturbed Fan Teaches about Humility

    What Jordan Peterson’s Response to a Disturbed Fan Teaches about Humility0

    Last week, Jordan Peterson spoke at the Liberty University convocation (full video here). It was an unusual venue for a secular man, a clinical psychologist who is decidedly not an Evangelical in his style or his belief. Esther O’Reilly at Patheos talks about something that happened during the Q&A portion of his talk.  If you want to

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  • What Jordan Peterson and Quentin Tarantino Understand About Chaos and Moral Responsibility

    What Jordan Peterson and Quentin Tarantino Understand About Chaos and Moral Responsibility0

    In the popular imagination, Quentin Tarantino has become something of a poster boy for style over substance. His films appear to be “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” perfectly embodying—with their senseless violence, unrealistic dialogue, postmodern style, and recent turn toward social justice themes—the forces of what Canadian psychologist and conservative public intellectual Jordan

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  • What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame

    What Johnny Cash’s ‘Hurt’ Teaches Us About Aging and Fame5

    In the 1980s, Johnny Cash, the former king of country, was increasingly marginalized and forgotten. After a series of failed albums, Columbia, his label of 25 years, dropped him. But his career was not quite over. Producer Rick Rubin saw Cash perform alongside Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in 1992 and recognized that “the

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  • What Jerry Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius

    What Jerry Seinfeld Learned While Reading Marcus Aurelius1

    Emperor of Rome from 161–180 AD, Marcus Aurelius is remembered as the “Philosopher King,” largely because of his classic work Meditations, a cornerstone of Stoic philosophy that delves into such themes as reason, virtue, self-control, self-improvement, and finding peace in a turbulent world. The book might seem like an odd choice for a comedian, but Seinfeld

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  • What Jeff Bezos Gets Right About Parenting

    What Jeff Bezos Gets Right About Parenting0

    Jeff Bezos was recently interviewed by his younger brother, Mark, at the Summit ideas conference in Los Angeles. The nearly hour-long discussion included a loving portrait of their childhood as well as the Amazon founder’s theories on childrearing. For those of us who believe in the importance of greater independence for our children and have

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