On Liberty by John Stuart Mill — One Idea, One Hundred and Sixty Years, Still Not Settled
A review of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty — the Harm Principle, individual freedom, and why governments still can’t leave it alone 165 years later.
The Debate Stephen Jay Gould Started With a Word: How ‘NOMA’ Enraged Both Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Schönborn and Created the Most Unusual Three-Way Fight in Science-Religion History
Stephen Jay Gould proposed a truce between science and religion in 1997. Both Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Schönborn rejected it. The fallout reshaped modern intellectual history.
The Anatomy of a Luxury Tote: Suede Linings and Edge Paint Masterclasses
Spend thirty seconds with a well-constructed leather tote — really spend it, fingertips moving deliberately…
Prussian Blue’s Accidental God: The Berlin Dye-Maker Who Synthesized the First Modern Pigment in 1704 and Accidentally Proved That Color Has No Essence
In 1704, a Berlin dye-maker accidentally invented the first synthetic pigment. It raised a question neither Plato nor Locke could fully answer: does color exist without a perceiver?
The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Few books arrive with the kind of philosophical weight that reorganizes how you think about…
Essential: Remembering the Covid Lockdown at The Heritage Diner
A first-person account of staying open during the 2020 Covid lockdown at The Heritage Diner on Long Island’s North Shore — the staff who stayed, the grief behind closed doors, and what “essential” really meant.
