The meme is today's aphorism. Today's quick barb or quip can be enough to help you out of falling into the maelstrom of today's flood of...

What is the political equivalent of marriage adversarial politics? How does adversarial political or economic theories address marriage?

It is a strange thing to write in harmony. Twin pens poised, Scratching away at syncopated counterpoints. But to...

the popular account of the phrase "alpha male" is totally wrong. Instead of associating the phrase with things like dominance and...

Rene Girard would insist that Christianity is unique in that it is an answer to myth. But from outside of Christianity, across the sea, we

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I get this feeling I'm actually working for Amazon, working for Google, working for Facebook, working for Apple...

Experience involves limitations. This can lead to suffering in life. To overcome that suffering, one strategy is to aim yourself, aim your

A love story can actually be about being a good parent.

On May 5 I talked about writing at an event just outside Belleville. Retreat Zen is an incredible venue for small-group events, workshops, weekend program ge...

What's the connection between McLuhan & Peterson? What would they talk about if they had the chance to meet? What would McLuhan think...

Andrew Sweeny provides a clear-eyed cautionary tale of what comes with the revolutionary spirit. Anger and youth can be seductive. They can take our attentio...

The Divine Daughter moved into the next queue with the printer. This means everything is preparing for the final stages. According to my printer, Friesen Pre...

Are you worried about surveillance capitalism? Shoshana Zuboff certainly is. Zuboff is an academic and researcher from Harvard. In this video she outlines how...

In Verse 2 (Chapter 2) of the book, I explore four symbolic settings or environments. One could be considered the walled-in and controlled environment of a c...

Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson had a series of talks in August and September of 2018. One of the best things that came out of the talks was not so much the c...

Now the angel’s got a fiddle And the devil’s got a harp… Go tell the young messiah What happens to the heart - Leonard Cohen My wife and I went to a lawyer’s...

The desire to reduce something to its most essential and simple nature can be very tempting. If we capture an idea's or person's essence with a label or cate...