Tim White's Articles
Good Living, Reviews
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment without Burnout by Cal Newport
Tim White May 10, 2024
Although Slow Productivity is somewhat derivative of Newport’s other work, it is nonetheless an exceptionally important book that will be particularly valuable to those not yet familiar with his ideas.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Sound of Freedom, Directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde
Tim White July 21, 2023
Although Sound of Freedom is emotionally straining at times, it is nonetheless an excellent and important film about heroic, inspiring people—and a film that hopefully will have a positive impact on real-life efforts to fight child trafficking.
Education & Parenting, Reviews
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Tim White March 28, 2023
How to Read a Book was incredibly important and valuable when it was first published in 1940, and it remains so today. It’s so packed with clear, accessible, and oft-overlooked wisdom that even expert readers will find it an indispensable addition to their libraries.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Politics & Rights
Esquire’s Dishonest Smear of Aaron Rodgers and Ayn Rand
Tim White January 20, 2022
This article takes for granted that Atlas Shrugged is a bad book and that Aaron Rodgers’s behavior exemplifies its content—without providing a single shred of evidence to support either conclusion.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Spotlight by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Tim White October 29, 2020
Spotlight highlights the tremendous power of objective journalism and the inspiring heroism of the few journalists who remain committed to it.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Politics & Rights
To Black Lives Matter, No Lives Matter
Tim White August 13, 2020
We who care about the lives of individuals, political freedom, the rule of law, civilized society, and all that is required for human beings to live peacefully and prosper—we must unpack the package deal that enables BLM to lure people to support its evil aims.
Arts & Culture, Economics, Reviews
Animal Crossing: New Horizons by Nintendo EPD
Tim White August 6, 2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons serves as a glowing endorsement of both the economic and social aspects of capitalism. Although the game is targeted primarily at children, it’s also hugely popular with adults and is designed to appeal to people of all ages.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Firefly, created by Joss Whedon
Tim White July 3, 2020
Firefly is not perfectly accurate in its attempts to depict the essential natures of heroism and villainy, but its successes are much more uplifting than its failures are problematic.
Education & Parenting
Kyle Steele on VanDamme Academy’s Response to COVID-19
Tim White July 3, 2020
At VDA, one of the biggest factors influencing student motivation is the fact that the teachers we hire genuinely value the subjects they teach. Our teachers understand why math, grammar, and history are valuable to any human being, regardless of what the future holds.
Arts & Culture, Biographies, Good Living
Be Like Water: The Inspiring Legend of Bruce Lee
Tim White June 18, 2020
Although many martial artists throughout history have sought to build their crafts on a philosophic base, Bruce Lee was one of very few to do so in a generally rational manner.
Politics & Rights
Contra Tim Bray and Co., Amazon Is a Paragon of Virtue
Tim White May 29, 2020
Jeff Bezos is a hero, and the company he’s built unquestionably is among the greatest and most life-enhancing in all of human history. Any claims to the contrary are nothing short of untrue, unfair, and unjust.
Good Living
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life: Five Lessons from Miyamoto Musashi’s ‘Way of the Warrior’
Tim White May 28, 2020
Miyamoto Musashi is on my “top ten” list of people whose ideas have dramatically improved my life. I think that if you read his works and reflect carefully on their myriad implications and applications, you’ll enjoy similar results.
Politics & Rights
Thank You, Cordie Williams, for Standing up for Liberty and Integrity
Tim White May 7, 2020
In an impassioned five-minute speech, Cordie Williams reminded police that not all orders issued to soldiers and law enforcement officials are lawful—and that it is not only illegal but often immoral to obey an unlawful order.
Arts & Culture, Politics & Rights
Kudos to the Cordairs for Standing up to Authoritarians
Tim White April 30, 2020
Please join us in speaking up in defense of the right of the Cordairs—and of everyone else—to run their lives and businesses in accordance with their own rational judgment.
Arts & Culture, Good Living
Twenty More Soul-Fueling Works of Art to Get You Through the Lockdown
Tim White April 30, 2020
Although economic and social restrictions are easing in some parts of the world, most of us aren’t yet seeing the light at the end of the lockdown tunnel. Here are twenty more uplifting, inspiring, and/or philosophically valuable works of art to keep you going for the next month or two.