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Why Starting Over Every January May Be the Wrong Goal
- Culture, Featured, Health, Philosophy, Uncategorized
- December 31, 2025






The coming election promises to have both sides chewing their fingernails down to the knuckles. Because of this close race, you need to know the name of Marc Elias. The New York Times calls Elias “One of the most formidable election lawyers in the country, and arguably one of the most influential of unelected Democrats in Washington.”
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“There is no proletarian,” wrote Oswald Spengler, “not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.” What the German prophet of pessimism meant was that revolutions
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President Trump hosted a televised naturalization ceremony at the White House, aired during the Republication National Convention. “You’ve earned the most prized, treasured, cherished, and priceless possession anywhere in the world,” he told the five new United States citizens. “It’s called American citizenship.” Prized? Perhaps. But maybe not priceless. A record number of Americans are
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I read an advice article at Slate recently where a mom of a nearly five-year-old daughter wrote in to express concern that her child hasn’t seen any friends in five months, since COVID-19 lockdowns began. She said: Because of COVID, my husband and I have decided to skip [pre-K] altogether and teach her everything she
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It begins with a blueberry Pop-Tart. My friend John and I spent five days at his brother’s house on the Outer Banks. There I wrote, read books, ate well, took walks to the beach and around the neighborhood, and slept. My one excursion away from the house was to the grocery store. Otherwise, no masks
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The other day, I drove past the place where it all started. One pulls up to the flashing red stoplight and looks left to check for traffic. There’s no need to look right, because the traffic won’t be there. Instead, one sees cement barricades, covered with scrawling graffiti, and a block down, the now nationally
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