by tfindlay | Aug 5, 2026
In 1997, a historian named Neil Howe and his co-author William Strauss published a book called The Fourth Turning. A Substack author who goes by the name of St. Badhon recently published his take on how The Forth Turning relates to today’s crisis and what it says...
by tfindlay | Apr 24, 2026
Culture is the milieu in which we live and breathe. As water is to fish it is the all but transparent environment that pervades nearly every aspect of our lives. Its influence on us is enormous but typically goes unnoticed. We are born into a culture and...
by tfindlay | Mar 12, 2026
In Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials series every human has an animal daemon. The humans and their daemons are deeply bonded and experience each other’s feelings. For nefarious reasons the evil Magisterium creates a device capable of severing the bond between a human...
by tfindlay | Mar 4, 2026
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer claimed that human suffering was due to desire and that desires stem from the desire to live. Because of its instinctive nature this will to live was believed by Schopenhauer to cause us blindly obey its urgings. He did not...
by tfindlay | Feb 8, 2026
Today a battle in the war for the hearts and minds of Americans will be waged during the Super Bowl halftime show. Representing the Interdependent Mindset will be Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican megastar, whose songs fuse the raw energy of urban music and resistance...
