Sitemap - 2022 - Sparks from Culture by David Roberts
Stewardship, Families, and Politics
Is Art the Last Refuge of Scoundrels Who Scoff at the Law?
The Power of Words, My Marriage, and the Constitution
Expectant Grandfather, Actual Grandfather
Confrontation, Confidence, a Will to Power, and the Question of "Why"
Very Short Post-Why I have Not Posted For a While
The Value of Good Advice, the Perils of Bad Advice
What Doesn’t Get Measured Doesn’t Get Done
A Gross Miscarriage of Justice Reversed
Did America Declare War on China on Friday?
Living In the Moment can Be Overrated
A Career Change For Me; My Mother as Role Model
The Putin Gambit: A Conspiracy Theory
Steely Dan’s “Deacon Blues;” Winners and Losers; This is Not About Ukraine
Mid Life Crises Revisited, The Search for Awe, Introspection: Controlled or Amok
Public Defenders and Soldiers Can Be Noble; Murders and Wars Can Never Be
My Uncle Jock, Woodstock, and Unreliable First Impressions
WEIRD, Kinship, the Queen, the Harfoots of Middle Earth
Tradition, DR2, and Chesterton’s Fence
“Rope-a-Dope” in Life and Politics
Degree of Difficulty: The Root of My Political Biases
Something Noble This Way Comes: Biden’s Student Debt Plan
Unfiltered Thoughts of an Expectant Grandfather plus the Grandparent "Cult"
Very Short Post: Salman Rushdie and Headlines, Lorem Ipsum
The Awful Necessity of Misreading Other People
A Lonely Fan of Chamberlain; Probability and Expected Value
Fraud School; Sophistry and Scotch; A Constantly Shrinking Portfolio
FOMO, “Ten-Baggers,” Authenticity and Its Limits
Goading the MAGA Herd; a Third-Rate Lenin; a Result to Celebrate
Peanut Gallery, Vote Canvassing, Vaclav Havel, Dangerous Self-Affirmation
I Mis-Told You So; 100 Word Mea Culpa
Frodo, Mid-Life Crisis, Trumpian Sycophants, Macbeth, and Meatballs
Dukakis; Supreme Spartan Folly; Bacteria That Devours Oil; Canute v. Xerxes
“And You Thought I Would Do What?”
A Little Story Starring My Father That Made a Big Impression On Me
The Short, Unhappy Life of My Reckless Reading Habits
Adolescent Shame, Mature Honor
The Remarkable Success of our 535 Representatives and Senators
Very Short Post: The Moral Arc Today is Rainbow Colored
An “Illogical,” “Perverse,” and Tragic Supreme Court Decision: Shinn vs. Jones
Short Post: Do Not Dare Blame the Police for Uvalde
Short Post: Our Domestic Gun Violence Problem and American Power
The NY Times on the Rape of Haiti by France Two Centuries Ago; “Moral” Debts and Reparations
Who Do We Choose to Care About? The Allocation of our Emotional Capital
Netflix Stock Plunged: A Semi-Free Rider Roots for it to Recover
The Shootings in Buffalo: MLK's Words Offer Wisdom and Faith
Does Everyone Need Their Own Personal Myth?
Why Does Our Government Prioritize Killing Russians Over Saving American Lives?
Abuse of the Word Extremist; Is The Sermon on the Mount a “Set of Extreme Ideas?”
Rape, Abortion, Russian Soldiers, Ukrainian Women
The Challenge of J.D. Vance: A Litmus Test for Me
“Poshlost,” Gogol and Belinsky in 1847, Kennan in 1947, the Continuity of Russian History
Short Stories Are Underrated and are Better than Novels for Reading Groups
Artificial Intelligence as an Existential Risk, Human Agency, and How World War One Started
Four Incredibly Toxic Words: “I Told You So.”
War, What is it Good For?* (Absolutely Nothing); Plus, Thoughts on Angels, Lincoln and Schadenfreude
Ibram X. Kendi on White Supremacists, and the Art of the Stretch
The Lilliputians of Gulliver’s Travels, Our Covid Divide, and a Thought Experiment
Leading a Passover Seder, Machiavelli, and Federalist No. 10. (On Factions)
Why I’m Optimistic About Climate Change
Welcome to a Community of People Who Care Deeply About Culture and Literature.
Crimes Against Words: Groomer and Genocide
The Cruel, Untimely, and Much Too Quiet Death of the Expanded Child Tax Credit