Goya and the Industrial Assembly Line of Death
The firing squad in Goya’s Third of May 1808 has no faces. They don’t need them. Here’s what the painting actually says about empires, workers, and who bleeds when states collide.
Strategic Wealth Building: Key Takeaways from Vivian Tu’s Well Endowed
Wealth, at its core, is a language — and most people were never taught to…
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins — Science as the Deepest Kind of Poetry
Keats was drunk when he said it. December 1817, at the painter Benjamin Haydon’s London…
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind — Noam Chomsky
Every decade or so, a book arrives that doesn’t just add to a conversation —…
White Manna: The Mechanics of the Hackensack Slider
White Manna in Hackensack has been working the same flat top since 1946. Born at the 1939 World’s Fair, it runs on volume, heat, and sweat — a pure mechanical breakdown.
Two Gibsons
The story of two Gibson guitars passed between father and son — a 2008 Les Paul Supreme in Heritage Cherry Sunburst and the old black Gibson that came home.
