Selected articles, stories, and notes. Total entries: 4.
A person who has been beaten with a stick all their life instinctively looks for a razor blade inside every gingerbread cookie.
Nationalism is an emergency mechanism for restoring trust within a narrow circle when general trust has been destroyed.
At first, we are architects. We are born a wild, unmapped landscape. Somewhere lies a swamp of secret wants, somewhere cliffs of irrational fear, somewhere clearings of pure, causeless joy. Very early on, though, an inner perfectionist wakes up with a master plan for the build-out. He isn’t a tyrant. He’s a decorator. He undertakes the...