My Fellow Citizens, There’s one phrase that keeps shouting at me over all the images of the protests. The phrase comes from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, Between the World and Me [https://bookshop.org/a/5090/9780812993547] (2015). Reflecting on his childhood, Coates describes what it was like growing up
My Fellow Citizens, Gullibility kills. That’s the last line of Carl Sagan’s essay, “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection [http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/carl-sagan-presents-his-baloney-detection-kit-8-tools-for-skeptical-thinking.html] .” When it comes to baloney, we’re at Code Red. The list of today’s baloney is long but includes a
My Fellow Citizens, I haven’t read Ryan Holiday’s recent book, but I’ve started to suspect that this is the right time for it. The title is “Stillness is the Key.” Ryan Holiday is the reason why I keep Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations within reach at my desk.
My Fellow Citizens, We’re all asking one another, “how are you holding up?” The standard response usually starts with a deep breath and includes some bad joke. We’re looking for a new approach to our standard greetings. The usual ones don’t seem to do enough to recognize
This is a moment when we need everyone to get it.Dr. Sanjay Gupta told late-night host Stephen Colbert [https://youtu.be/jmUMolg-7nA] that he thought we were. People are starting to get this, Gupta said, “I have an obligation now, not just for my health, my family’s health,