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To this point, I’ve talked about Mystery—the fourth of The Four Principles, which are alignment, sensitivity, creativity, and mystery—in terms of ritual and storytelling. The principle of Mystery hinges on the Jungian idea that our souls...
Calls to simplify financial regulation are met with warnings that doing so would destabilise the financial system. Correct?
The Iron Age occupants of this broch had to abandon it in a hurry, but they left behind some clues about their way of life
The saddest thing about the collapse of the US empire is that instead of a dignified decline or a catastrophic collapse, we had to endure the spectacle of the White House being turned into the White Trash House.
Since today is the 4th of July and in most places the beaches are still open, I thought I would revisit, Jaws, with a bonus track. After trying to convince people that Mayor Vaughn wasn’t as bad as people make him out to be, I thought I...
And for today’s post we have May’s monthly Round-Up. I’m over a month behind with these things now, but June’s models should offer me an opportunity to do some more efficient post-catch-up. For the first time in a long time, May also...
Note: Yes I use em-dashes when I write, and no this is not AI. There are three kinds of startups. I have worked at all three — feel free to guess which is which. First, hype-driven startups. It may sound bad, but this is the kind VCs...
From my novel Evertype. Illustration by Trent Reker.
Last year, I tried the first of Benjamin Stevenson's Ernest Cunningham novels after some initial skepticism, but Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (2022) sold me on Benjamin's hilarious, classically-styled meta whodunits and...
I started my day checking the headlines on news sites and saw an interesting title that caught my eye because it's about CSS. These posts are generally interesting because it'll mean I learn some new CSS tricks. The posts I've read are...
On 4 July 1857, the Dead Rabbits raided a Bowery Boys clubhouse and kicked off two days of gang warfare in Lower Manhattan. Around 1,000 fighters. Eight confirmed dead. The police ran away.
Meg Walls (left) and Anna Marks Pryce (right) in Lulla at the Omnibus Theatre. Photo: Lidia Crisafulli Lulla, presumably short for lullabies, which weave through this play, centres on 16-year-old Marin (Anna Marks Pryce), a queer...
Remember when my friend Duncan Newmarch was Stuck in the 80s? Well, he’s back, with a new show for the weekend. Or is a show from four decades ago? Or is it both?
Toronto consists of enclaves. All right, and parks. Enclaves are areas inhabited by minorities. There are a hundred and five minorities in Toronto, and new ones are being created all the time. Surrounded by invisible lines, walls and...
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and...