Originally published on Substack We do not often characterize politics as spiritual activity. Many if not most people associate it with problematic power struggles and necessary evils — the supposed opposite of spirituality. And yet, if we define spiritual activity as the effect of “immaterial” ideas and morals on the […]
“Survival of the Weirdest”
The World is So Strange Now; Do Those Willing to Ask Strange Questions, Have an Advantage? Two days ago, I was on the phone with customer service at Citibank. The house in which I was located — a two-story, full-basement, three-bedroom, 1400 square foot house on the highest point of […]
“Darkness At Noon”
Remembering Arthur Koestler’s classic novel on eclipse day in Dallas It’s solar eclipse day here in Dallas, and I woke up this morning thinking about Arthur Koester’s 1940 novel Darkness at Noon, whose original German title, Sonnenfinsternis, means “solar eclipse.” The story—about the arrest and interrogations of a man named Nikolai Salmanovich Rubashov—explores […]