Writing
He and I
He and I are walking towards the river on Clouet Street on our way to Mass. It is quarter to eight on a Sunday morning. We are smoking cigarettes a…
Thoughts on deciding to paddle the Mississippi River
I graduated from college in May of this year. When I finished high school, I was convinced that institutional education was the tool of an authorit…
A night in Birmingham on July 3, 2018
After dinner Claire and I go to the porch to smoke a cigarette. From her porch we see the sun setting on the horizon. To the south of Birmingham th…
Some thoughts on economy as community
I was born into a tradition of middle-class American suburban existence at the turn of the millennium. I grew up in communities — schools, sports t…
The Divided Soul and Dostoevsky’s Polyphonic Response to Plato
The name which Dostoevsky gives to the protagonist of Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, comes from ‘raskol’ — Russian for ‘schism’ or ‘split.’ It …
Akrasia and the divided soul
‘Akrasia’, a Greek term used to indicate an agent acting against his own better judgment, has been widely explored in philosophical literature as a…
Sewer Grate
It was always about words, or the lack thereof.
I remember when you told me that
the right way to smoke a cigarette was to
…
Motion as an Effective Path to Truth
There are many good reasons that human beings tend to stay in one place. There are simple reasons, like familiarity, which leads to safety (a biolo…
The Key Food Mart on Rampart Street
This semester I dropped out of school to read books, travel and drink beer with homeless people, which I’ve found is sometimes more educational and…
Truth is Beauty, Beauty is Truth?
It is beautiful
to conquer distance with a motor
effortlessly, spontaneously
to change surroundings and
quench the mad thir…
Membership in a Moral Community is Not Necessary for the Possession of Rights
In an article entitled “The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research,” University of Michigan law professor Carl Cohen asserts that the p…