“The truth is that irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they will worship the strongest thing in the world.” G.K. Chesterton I've been thinking about the role

Last year, I wrote a passionate essay about Why The Oscars Matter. It was also my second last essay before I stopped writing for a while. There are many reasons for this - most of them circumstantial, some of them cliches. But the Oscar nominations have jolted me out of

This essay is a prologue because this topic has me so riled up that I spent my morning looking at grad schools where I could read for a living and address it with a book. It's not just a topic. It's a moral obligation for us

Apathy is the air we breathe, thanks to the mind numbing scrolls of content we are constantly surrounded by. Sarcasm is the preferred form of wit, while sincerity is met with smirks, as we all shrug our way into our apparent doom as prophesied by the very people who have

Anyone who has ever proclaimed that God doesn’t exist has always invented a new one. Yes, I know who you're thinking about: his text is widely misinterpreted, most infamously by the subject of this essay—Ayn Rand. She went further with her proclamation; she became a God

When Scenes from a Marriage was released in 1973, it supposedly led to a spike in divorces in Sweden. However, an often overlooked element is the new divorce laws passed during that time, which went into effect on January 1st, 1974 – making it a more understandable cause for the spike.

Harari and Rand: This is how my week of media consumption started: watching a once-respected author known for his harmless, albeit intellectually shallow book (Sapiens), who has now descended into full-on quackery (which started with Homo Deus). This transformation is being eagerly embraced by his legion of followers. It reminded

1. Work as a proxy for meaning is failing Han argues that we go from being obedience subjects to achievement subjects. We’re no longer workers, we’re “entrepreneurs of ourselves” – commodities (i.e. human capital) that also can be transacted upon using the mechanisms of the free-market. Therefore we

Jet lag offers a curious remedy for adapting to a new rhythm. While most of these rhythmic adjustments are personal, I decided to add something to my weekly routine: channeling my desire for knowledge into a weekly digest of what I am reading and the corresponding thoughts that come with