Microscript Rules

If the glove doesn’t fit… Even though I didn’t type it out, your brain probably said “you must acquit.” Why is that? Your brain ‘hears’ the rest of the sentence as if I wrote it out because of audiation, the process by which...

The Stranger

“Any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being put to death.” – Camus In The Stranger Albert Camus explores his philosophy of the absurd – existentialism – through the story of Meursault. He’s a man...

Cato

What does it mean to be a virtuous citizen in a republic? America’s founding father’s were designing a system of government in reaction to the English Monarchy. They studied political theorists from Aristotle to Locke. And it was the history of the Roman...

Deep Reading

“Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has...

The Test of Time

In 1,252 the Islamic world was in the middle of an golden age – much like the Italian Renaissance. It was an era of free thought and intellectual liberalism. Baghdad was home to the House of Wisdom, a library which attracted a great many Catholic and Jewish...