Sitemap - 2023 - Sparks from Culture by David Roberts
The OG Fascist: Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor
I’m A Believer In Free Speech But This Morning I Censored Myself
Thirty meals At A Food Bank: Something A Paid Subscription of $30 Can Do
A Jew Reads James Baldwin After The October 7th Atrocities
The Death Of The Leisure Class
How A Fraud Broke My Trust In Myself
Montana Meets Manhattan: Two Adventures In Education
Recommendation: How To Measure Sums of Money From the Distant Past
A Checkbook Can't Make You A Hero
Laughing and Crying at the Same Time
We Don’t Mean To But We Do: What Parents Say and What Children Hear
History is Coming For Us and It’s Going to Hurt
A New Option For My Subscribers
My Childhood Loneliness Haunts Me
Is Noblesse Oblige Still Relevant Today?
A Report From Grandparent World Ten Months In
Absolute vs. Responsible Behavior: Why We Need Both
How Serious Are You About Movies?
Churchill's Eulogy for Chamberlain: The Legacy Test
Recommendation: Are You Serious About Your Candy?
Primo Levi, the Holocaust, and Forgiveness: A Video Discussion With Professor Al Filreis
Recommendation: The TV Show Damages
“Greed is Good:” Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” 36 Years later
The Cruel, Untimely, and Much Too Quiet Death of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
Recommendation: A Board Game All About Words
Primo Levi: Only Victims Can Truly Forgive
Welcome to Sparks From Culture
Ed Norton's "Worm" in Rounders
David Foster Wallace’s Devastating Short Story, “Good Old Neon”
John Cheever’s “Goodbye, My Brother” and the Eighth Deadly Sin
Revolutionary Road: Delusions of Exceptionalism
How We Learn to Desire, the Weak and the Strong, The Wonder Years
In-Laws: Lessons Learned From a Family Tale of Betrayal and Rift
“Warning! There be Squalls Ahead*” The Stock Market and the 2024 Election
Challenging My Own Thinking. Is Modern Capitalism Moral?* Kid Rock
Supreme Court Cage Match : Thomas vs. Jackson on Affirmative Action and Race
A Short Follow-Up to my Post on the Peak-End Rule as it Applies to My Colonoscopy This Morning
The Ongoing Financial Constriction of the Non-Privileged
The Spell of the Kennedys; My Personal Experience
Belly Flops, John McEnroe, “This is Water,” Dow 1,250
Willy Loman in the Age of Trump
Sophie, Succession, and East Hampton “Finance Bros”
Post-Wedding Reflections; Having Another Go Against Chaos
As My Son’s Wedding Approaches, a Ramble Through My Mind
The Debt Ceiling : A Custom More Honored in the Observance than the Breach; Useless Outrage
A Different Take on Justice Clarence Thomas and His Very Rich Friend
Exaggerated or False Praise is Often Self-Defeating and Sometimes Pernicious
The Implacable Miss Hurt, Mozart, Okun's Leaky Bucket
AI: Experts, Experts Everywhere, But Who Knows What To Think?
Watergate, Patriotism, Israel, Weebles
Brief Post: A Numerical Bamboozle in the WSJ
A Monster, A Fable, The Modern Search for Meaning
Dire Straits Part Two: A Shiver in the Dark
Dire Straits: Money For Nothing, I Loved My SVB
They Don’t Mean To But They Do, “Fat Bastard,” and Democratic Foreign Policy
Prayer, Gratitude, and “Hacks”
The Environment, Cool Charts, and the Wrong "Hullabaloo"
My Youthful Distractions, American Teens and Social Media, Marcus Aurelius on Binge-Watching
Misunderstanding MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Pete Carroll, the Scapegoat of Azazel, and the Monsters We Must Have
Embarrassing Correction to my Post of My Covid and My Cognitive Biases