May 29, 2015

Two Rules for My Daughter’s Library

A mother reflects on curating an updated library of children's literature for her daughter to read — one that speaks to "the full spectrum of brown and black folks to mitigate the future onslaught of ubiquitous whiteness" and people she could imagine being.

Essay

May 22, 2015

How Do You Know When You’re Making Too Much Money?

Written by Courtney E. Martin

More than 25 percent of us may be jeopardizing the "good life" by blindly pursuing more to keep up with the Joneses? Courtney Martin on operating on income autopilot and re-interpreting our financial wealth.

Essay

July 13, 2018

Good Conversation Is an Adventure

Written by Krista Tippett

A few weeks ago, Krista reached out on social media to ask for your questions. She shares the questions here in the hope that we might live in to them, together.

Essay

June 12, 2015

A Little Compartmentalization Is a Life-Sustaining Thing

Written by Courtney E. Martin

Compartmentalizing can be a useful tool — whether dealing with the empty voids of our working lives, or the prolonged absence from the ones you love — in making it possible to live a whole life.

Essay

March 10, 2018

The Blue House That I Loved

Written by Kao Kalia Yang

In a plot of grass, behind a bar on Payne, right off Maryland Avenue on the east side of St. Paul there was once a blue house that I loved.

Essay

January 27, 2019

Christian, Conservative, Treehugger

Written by John Murdock

Exhausted, we all sat down for dinner at the end of a whirlwind day that had spanned two continents. Our jet-lagged group included Republican lawmakers, the chief policy voice for a major evangelical organization, and a couple of folks like me with ties to the right-leaning non-profit that had helped…

Essay

January 12, 2018

Lines and Boundaries: An Orange County Almanac

Written by Jason Brown

We've built boundaries between what we consider the cultural, human realm and the world of nature. But there are ever-widening cracks in that wall — and something to be learned about the question of belonging.

Essay

April 8, 2012

Symbols of Power: Adinkras and the Nature of Reality

Written by S. James Gates Jr.

Physicists have long sought to describe the universe in terms of equations. Now, James Gates explains how research on a class of geometric symbols known as adinkras could lead to fresh insights into the theory of supersymmetry — and perhaps even the very nature of reality.

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Two Rules for My Daughter’s Library

How Do You Know When You’re Making Too Much Money?

Good Conversation Is an Adventure

A Little Compartmentalization Is a Life-Sustaining Thing

The Blue House That I Loved

Christian, Conservative, Treehugger

Lines and Boundaries: An Orange County Almanac

Symbols of Power: Adinkras and the Nature of Reality

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