Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer — A Portrait of the Mind in Conflict
There is a reproduction of this painting mounted on wood in my living room —…
What Never Hits Zillow: The Hidden Inventory Problem on Long Island’s North Shore
Every few weeks, someone walks into the diner and says some version of the same…
Brooklyn Skinhead by Lou Morales — Boots, Brotherhood, and the God He Found After
Sunset Park in the late 1980s did not produce philosophers. It produced survivors. The blocks…
A Kierkegaard Anthology, Edited by Robert Bretall: The Thinker Who Refused to Let Me Go
Reading Kierkegaard as someone who arrived through Nietzsche is, to put it plainly, disorienting. It…
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill: The Book That Almost Made Me Abandon Nietzsche
Utilitarianism was first published in 1863. On Liberty came four years earlier, in 1859. Together…
Ride the Lightning: Metallica, Fade Away
Metallica · Ride the Lightning · Megaforce Records / Elektra Records · Released July 27,…
