The Novice

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Living with Few Duties

There's a lot of wisdom—the kind of wisdom that one finds across cultures, though in different ways and different words—in these opening lines to the Mettā Sutta: This is to be done by one skilled in…

May 28·2 min read·324 words

The Buddha's Anti-dogmatism

Re-reading Gil Fronsdal's The Buddha before Buddhism, I'm again struck by simplicity of the earliest teachings: You're always stressing yourselves out. You can stop. The fact that his later followers…

May 25·2 min read·336 words

The Political Music of Hyperspheres

Tom Stafford on why policy preferences don't neatly create "median" or even "centrist" voters in practice: In one-dimensional space, like that of the traditional left-right divide, the centre is dens…

May 20·2 min read·263 words

On Critical Liberalism

The oldest branch of liberal thought remains its most emancipatory. It asks how everyday practices affect freedom, often without our knowledge. It treats power with relentless suspicion while it prais…

Mar 20·12 min read·2322 words

Integrative Liberal Democracy

Practices organize social life. Yet they’ve received surprisingly little attention in the study of politics—little by political scientists, still less by practitioners.

Jan 31·15 min read·2817 words

26.1 Noting as a Practice

On writing, thinking, and working with the garage door up

Jan 1·1 min read·15 words

Noting as a Practice

My writing life exists on a loop. “I should write more.” “I’ll relaunch my website to publish there.” “To build my audience, I’ll need to publish on a schedule, write pieces that can go viral, develop…

Jan 1·8 min read·1477 words

The Constellation Effect

The Constellation-class frigate offers a cautionary tale on unsustainable ambition. The New York Times: In 2020 the Navy had a simple plan to build its next fleet of small warships, the Constellation…

Jan 1·3 min read·476 words