Arts & Culture
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.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
Shane by Jack Schaefer
William Nauenburg June 18, 2020
Shane by Jack Schaefer is an invigorating tale of heroism that celebrates the fundamental power of the good in human life and its ability to defeat evil.
Arts & Culture, Good Living
Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Independence and Adulthood
Connor Watts May 28, 2020
As a child, and even as a teenager, I was keen to remedy my anxieties about growing up and find guidance to help me on the path to maturity. It may surprise you to learn where I found these things and what they’ve taught me.
Arts & Culture
‘The Earth Becomes My Throne’: Individualism in Metallica’s Black Album
Thomas Walker May 7, 2020
Metallica’s “Black Album” exalts individualism, liberty, self-interest, personal development, and the importance of the reasoning mind.
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, Education & Parenting, Reviews
Anne with an E by Moira Walley-Beckett
Jon Hersey April 30, 2020
If you can stand a tearjerker—and if you enjoy art that glorifies imagination, individualism, free inquiry, and the passionate pursuit of values—you may just fall in love with Moira Walley-Beckett’s Anne with an E.
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.
Arts & Culture, Good Living
Twenty Soul-Fueling Works of Art to Check Out While You’re Stuck at Home
Tim White April 16, 2020
Here are twenty books, movies, TV shows, and video games with notably positive and/or philosophically valuable messages to help you pass the time, keep your mind active, and keep your spiritual fuel tank full.
Arts & Culture, Reviews
True Grit by Charles Portis
William Nauenburg March 26, 2020
Charles Portis’s novel is a story filled with memorable characters and stimulating action that treats serious themes with lighthearted yet benevolent wit. For readers looking to explore the Western genre of the great American canon, True Grit is a true classic.
Arts & Culture, Biographies, History
Isabella Stewart Gardner: ‘One of the Seven Wonders of Boston’
Jon Hersey March 19, 2020
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a firecracker of a woman with a studied yet eclectic taste in art and the means to acquire lots of it. As one friend put it, she lived “at a rate and intensity, with a reality that makes other lives seem pale, thin and shadowy.”