Attention
The Quiet Collapse of the American Weekend
Two days without work were a moral achievement, not a market outcome. We are letting them dissolve without noticing what they were for.
Ideas
The argument, essayed. Long-form essays on the questions beneath the news: what we owe each other, what we are becoming, and what we have chosen to forget.
Education
What We Lost When We Stopped Memorizing Poems
Recitation was never about the poem. It was about building an interior room that no one could take from you.
Democracy
Democracy Is a Habit, Not a System
The Framers built machinery. But machinery only runs on the daily, unglamorous practice of treating your opponents as citizens.
Attention
The Case Against Convenience
Every friction we engineer away was holding something up. An essay on effort as a load-bearing wall of the self.
Attention
Attention Is a Moral Act
Simone Weil called attention the rarest and purest form of generosity. The economy built to harvest it has an opinion about that.