Category: Thought

Isaiah Berlin’s “Crooked Timber” and the “Bent Twig” of Nationalism

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Post date September 29, 2020
Categories In Civics, Thought, Writing
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Obviously, there’s a ton of new writing on politics. Thoughtful, anxious books and longform essays about the right wing, especially, about nationalism, authoritarianism. I’m just beginning Kurt Anderson’s Evil Geniuses, as one example, which documents the Right’s efforts, since the late 70s, to dismantle the New Deal and create distracting culture wars as cover. Robert […]

Meditation for Non-Dummies: The Sam Harris brand of mindfulness

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Post date December 11, 2018
Categories In Life, Thought
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I have “meditated” and failed at meditation and actually meditated or done something like it, in fits and starts, for many years. I haven’t ever been “good” at it. My mind is too easily prone to distraction. But I feel like I’ve been doing something calming and productive, something that generally makes me feel better and […]