Number of words: 199 Atfirst glance, the case against democracy taking hold in the Middle East is a powerful one. It is not without reason that The Economist, a magazine not known for its anti-Muslim prejudices, asked whether there was something “hard-wired” into Islam that made it “incompatible with democracy.” In democracies, The Economist tells … Read more
Number of words: 262 Notwopeople, much less all the members of a community, have the exact same background, tastes, interest, priorities, will invariably lead people to respond to new situations in different ways. No matter how homogenous a society may seem, eventually differences will emerge and grow. The speed with which this process occurs will … Read more
Number of words: 268 Democracies, it is often observed, do not go to war with one another. That scholars have taken to combing the annals of diplomatic history in search of notable exceptions only proves the rule. But though this familliar axiom is often stated as if it needs no further explanation, the logic behind … Read more
Number of words: 129 Years later, close advisers of Gorbachev admitted that the realization that the USSR could never complete with star wars made them finally accept demand for internal reform. A leading Soviet economist, put it this way. Had it not been for the Reagan defense buildup, if the United States had not demonstrated … Read more
Number of words: 162 To give another example, consider Antonio Centeno, who runs the popular Real Man Style blog. Centeno’s sender filter lays out a two-step process. If you have aquestion, he diverts you to a public location to post it. Centeno thinks it’s wasteful to answer the same questions again and again in private … Read more
Number of words: 531 Bennett wrote about these issues more than a century ago. You might expect that in the intervening decades, a period in which this middle class exploded in size worldwide, our thinking about leisure time would have evolved. But it has not. If anything, with the rise of the Internet and the … Read more
Number of words: 535 When Ryan Nicodemus decided to simplify his life, one of his first targets was his possessions. At the time, Ryan lived alone in a spacious three-bedroom condo. For years, driven by a consumerist impulse, he had been trying his best to fill this ample space. Now it was time to reclaim … Read more
Number of words: 573 When Pritchard took over Smith Meadows, he explained, the farm made its own hay to use as animal feed during the winter months when grazing is impossible. Haymaking is done with a piece of equipment called a hay baler: a device you pull behind a tractor that compresses and binds dried … Read more
Number of words: 317 The problem with this approach, of course, is that it ignores all the negatives that come along with the tools in question. These services are engineered to be addictive —robbing time and attention from activities that more directly support your professional and personal goals (such as deep work). Eventually, if you … Read more
Number of words: 127 I propose an alternative to the Internet Sabbath. Instead of scheduling the occasional break from distraction so you can focus, you should instead schedule the occasional break from focus to give in to distraction. To make this suggestion more concrete, let’s make the simplifying assumption that Internet use is synonymous with … Read more
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