Culture

Incidentally White 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2019
“[T]o speak in general terms of the prototypical Southern conservative we would say first of all that he was not an alienated man.”—M.E. Bradford, “Where We Were Born and Raised” White nationalism has long existed on the borderlands of disaffected conservatism. Among its several denominations is the movement known as identitarianism, which combines the ideology of white nationalism with language
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Silicon Valley Wants to Read Your Mind – That’s a Problem 0
- Culture
- September 3, 2019
Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants to read your mind as well. The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to allow them to type just by thinking. And Elon Musk wants to go even further. One of
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Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson 0
- Culture
- August 30, 2019
Steve Jobs was a great visionary. But just how far did his vision extend? If you examine the history of the iPhone, it turns out his vision didn’t extend as far as we might think. In his book Digital Minimalism, computer science professor Cal Newport reveals that the original vision Jobs had for the iPhone
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In Praise of ‘Garbagemen’0
- Culture
- August 30, 2019
When I was twelve my family lived on a small, dry piece of land in rural Texas. Since we lived far outside of any city limits, we couldn’t rely on services like water (we had a well), sewage (we had a septic tank), or sanitation (we had a 12-year-old boy and a 50-gallon burn barrel).
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The Root of Our Troubles 0
- Culture
- August 30, 2019
(This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on January 28, 2019.) Like you, I’m horrified by the exponential growth in social chaos and totalitarian impulses ravaging our country. It seems as though nothing makes sense, there isn’t a unifying cause tying together the upheaval of American culture. Of course, that’s the nature of chaos,
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Income Inequality Is Not the Enemy 0
- Culture
- August 29, 2019
It’s easy to fall into the trap of comparisons. For myself, it can be very hard to not look at how my friends or acquaintances are doing and not feel that I’m running behind. Houses, cars, paychecks, life state – the temptation to grouse over what I think I don’t have is very strong. Money
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