Veganism and the Covid Panic

Lierre Keith’s book The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability describes her failed pursuit of a pure vegan diet. Published in 2009, Keith’s story parallels our recent Covid panic. Both veganism and Covidism are echoes of the ancient Greek philosophy …

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We live in a four-dimensional world. I work with binocular vision and one of the goals in much of the therapy we do involves establishing the ability to appreciate motion in three of those dimensions, and to sustain that in …

Toward an Archaeology of Anger

Last week, Brownstone Journal published an excerpt from Julie Ponesse’s book, Our Last Innocent Moment, titled: Our Last Innocent Moment: Angry Forever? 

In this piece Ponesse treats, in a refreshingly well-rounded and down-to-earth way, the complex subject of anger. Few …

The Post-Ideological Age

Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such …