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Middlemarch and the election of Donald Trump for a second term
Yesterday I was journaling after finishing the book Middlemarch by George Eliot, which I’ve been cherishing my time with for the past month or two. Eliot has a deep understanding of human psychology and all the ways our internal narrative runs into the messy reality of our community and our neighbors, and how we try to defend our ideas about ourselves and our purpose against a world that often…
Reflections on Listening to "Tea Time in Yemen" Episode of Order Without Design Podcast @devonzuegel After listening to episode one of Devon Zeugel's Order Without Design podcast, I'm so impressed with the clarity of Alain and Marie-Agnes Bertaud's thinking about how they made life decisions.
Reflections on Returning Home from the BWCA
Reflections on Returning Home from the BWCA
I first started writing this post yesterday, my first full day back at work and in my usual routine after returning from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). On that day, I was hit hard with the reality of complicated and demanding modern life is on our mental and emotional faculties, as compared to my time in the BWCA. In the BWCA, I woke up naturally when I felt awake. I was moved my body…
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Something that doesn't have any meaning for anyone
I’ve been reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I was struck by this exchange between two war-weary friends: “Tell me something, old friend: why are you fighting?” “What other reason could there be?” Colonel Gerineldo Marquez answered. “For the great Liberal party.” “You’re lucky because you know why,” he answered. “As far as I’m concerned, I’ve come to realize only…
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On Dickens' Genius in David Copperfield
I’m beginning to understand why Dickens is so highly praised and emulated. When he is at his best, as he is in David Copperfield, he manages to precisely capture not only the variety of the human spirit in his characters, but also the the political, economic, cultural, and physical landscape that his characters occupy. By developing such memorable characters and allowing them to drive the…
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Lessons in Education from South Korea
Lessons in Education from South Korea
I’ve been reading ‘The Smartest Kids in the World and how they got that way’ by Amanda Ripley – a book that aims to discover exactly what the top-scoring education systems in the world do that helps students learn so much. Far from being a policy primer on comparative education policies from the top-scoring national school systems, this book shows us the school system of these countries in their…
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From Vox's "Pol...
From Vox’s “Pol…
From Vox’s “Politics is about to destroy the Internet.” This essentially sums up the problem with our government and the industries they regulate.
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Ever since I read Umair Haque’s “Betterness: Economics for Humans,” I’ve…
Ever since I read Umair Haque’s “Betterness: Economics for Humans,” I’ve been sold on the idea that we need measures other than GDP if we want a more meaningful picture of an economy’s health. He likened GDP to a car’s speedometer – a one-dimensional measure that simply tells us how fast or how much, and nothing else. Yet we care about much more than the speed of our car: we should also be…
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Legislators won't touch the student debt problem until it's too late
Legislators won’t touch the student debt problem until it’s too late
“It’s not just about providing people with information. It’s really about creating a system where student loans aren’t overemphasized.” This article points out precisely what is wrong with how we finance higher education. I’m sick of our representatives not wanting to take on the issue of massive student debt, so instead they push for legislation that will help students make informed financial…
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House of Cards: Enthralling but Too Bleak
House of Cards: Enthralling but Too Bleak
House of Cards has everyone enthralled, and they can’t stop recommending it to me. Anytime I mention that I’m interested in policy, within the next minute the words, “Oh, you haveto watch House of Cards,” will come out of their mouth. Everyone likes to convert people to their shows, so I can’t hold that against them. After all, how many times have I said the same thing about Game of Thrones,…
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News Analysis
News Analysis
I’m Excited for the launch of Vox, but this op-ed by Malcolm Harris reminds me that we need to be careful with news sources that claim to offer comprehensive explanations and analyses of so many different topics. With so many complex issues in the world, we’d be fools to think that just because we have lots of data we can now cut to the core of those issues. Data helps but it must…
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Heavy Metal Drummer – Wilco This album is such a joy on your ears. Very mellow with a collection of songs that have their own distinctive sound yet add up to a unified whole.
A writer maximi...
A writer maximi…
A writer maximized her authority by choosing a subject she knew intimately and that made her feel helpless. “The best writers are those who put themselves at risk—first destabilize yourself, then restore yourself,” Lish said. How did they restore themselves? By dramatizing their confessions in a way that commanded attention: that was tense, taut, and confident, that had the feeling of an…
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A Case for Optimism on the Health of American Society
This post, from The New Yorker’s Maria Konnikova, provides some hopeful news for those who feel constantly stressed by all of life’s distractions and challenges. It shares the results of a study undertaken by the University of Miami that show with only…
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The Seward Neighborhood
So it turns out that Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis (my neighborhood!) was named after William H. Seward. Seward was widely expected to win the Republican nomination for the 1860 presidential election before a dark horse candidate named Abraham…
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Reflections while Driving Home
Auras of orange creamsicle and soft baby blue Drift lazily into each other; Edging closer, twirling and blending together Yet still shy, still hesitant: Would-be middle school sweathearts, when the slow song comes on.
A billowing cloud imposes itself Huffing…
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'Buzzkill' - The unexpectedly complex challenge of marijuana legalization