I’m a big believer that good mythology and stories can teach us how to live well. In the past year or so, that has led me to thinkers like Joseph Campbell and Jordan Peterson, who both have left a big mark on […]
I was driving to work today when I realized how nonchalantly I was piloting my land-speeding hunk of aluminum. Cars are extraordinary, complex, and dangerous machines, but most of us can drive them comfortably and without much second thought. That’s extraordinary. Then I […]
Today your town is likely covered with people wearing green, playing questionably Celtic music, and eating corned beef and cabbage. It’s St. Patrick’s Day, if you haven’t guessed. This holiday has become a huge deal for Americans. But Irish culture hasn’t […]
I’m morbidly fascinated by the history of the two twentieth century wars. These giant catastrophes seem far too big to be possible, yet they’re far too close to my lifetime to be ignored. It’s now 2018, and one of the […]
So, you’re going through a failure? As bad as it is, I doubt it’s quite as bad as the failure of the British Expeditionary Force in May 1940. After the rapid German conquest of France, British troops were holed up at this […]
Morbid fascination is a strong motivator for me. Recently it’s brought me around to a renewed study of the first world war. For me, the study of this war (and other terrible things in human history) is about far more […]