Of late, I’ve felt a revival of interest in liberal arts and the classics in general: it seems I can’t go a month without reading an ardent defense of the classical college curriculum, and how it develops a well-rounded thinker in a way that no other regime can replicate throughout…

It’s easy to make fun of the fat man at the gym. It’s something innate to human psychology, to put someone down so we can feel better about ourselves. It’s rarely done out loud, because its rude to publicly insult someone, but often these remarks will cross people’s minds without…

8/10. Excellent. Because someone I wanted to impress recommended it to me. Sheung-King’s debut novel was a quick read, ringing in at just over two hundred pages. In the past, a friend has mentioned the book to me, referencing the tagline that it “embraces the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami…

I’m something of an oddity in today’s fast-paced world. My current phone just had its five-year anniversary a month ago. It’s acquired a scratch since I’ve stopped using a screen protector a half a year ago, and one corner of the screen is starting to separate from the base. The…

Last week, I attended a performance of the National Ballet of Canada’s production of Swan Lake. Alone. Of course, I didn’t intend on going alone. I was going to go with a friend for lack of something better to do, and standing room tickets were only twelve dollars. But a…

Two doomer political posts back-to-back. I promise there’s nothing wrong and that I’m still a corporate shill. A well-worn neoliberal bromide is that the legitimacy of a government rests upon the consent of the ruled. This is the basis of how America justifies armed intervention in sovereign states, as well…

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times”. This quote is pervasive throughout the internet, mostly because it aligns with the paradigm of grindset social media influencers: work will set you free. It took a bit of searching…

It’s no secret to longtime readers that I fly frequently, both for work and for pleasure. So much that one might even say that I’m in part responsible keeping a certain airline profitable, as slim as its margins are. After nearly four years of traveling and flying, I have decided…

I was speaking to one of my friends about who I met at a party one night. I rattled off the list of names of people that I interacted with, listing who I liked and who I thought was boring. When I had finished, she said “it’s no surprise that…