Category: Culture

In the west, people love Christmas more than most other holidays.  As people adorn their lawns with lights and stores start playing classic Christmas songs, we watch the world transform before our eyes every December. However, even as Americans work themselves into a frenzy decorating, buying mass-produced gifts, and hosting wholesome family feasts, few...

An ancient parable from the Indian subcontinent has been on my mind a lot lately. Modern political discourse is often defined by our differences, so discussing politics is mostly a point of division between people. Everyone is blinded by their subjective experience of reality. The identity-based movements dominating political discourse often force us to...

The greatest gift I’ve ever given myself was detaching from mainstream media narratives about politics. I first became politically engaged when I found my parents’ old Doonesbury and Bloom County books in fifth grade. My journey through news and politics has been an interesting one since then. At varying times I’ve been completely immersed...

The other day, this Instagram post I made a few years ago crossed my mind. Valentine’s day always gets me thinking about love and sex. I was trying to illustrate different stages of relationships and romantic connections. If I drew this diagram today I might structure it differently. For example: Friendship -> Emotional connection...

Once upon a time, there was a mountain that no one had ever climbed. Although generations of hill dwellers had come and gone, no one had ever reached the mountaintop without losing their life along the way. During a particularly prosperous time, however, there came a Mountain Climber whose skill was known far and...