The Great Conversation

Few speak or conceive of the homeless as individual human beings who have—for one reason or another—fallen into the pits of hell on a highly-stratified and commodified earth. In this essay exploring the topic from a humane perspective, I attempt to humbly do so.

The SS United States may soon be lost to us—what a tragedy that would be! for her nation of origin to forsake her to the bottom of the sea.

Poetic musings on the tension between living and working—creativity and necessity.

These days, it feels as though technology rules our lives. But what if we instead focused on very good use cases on an individual level?

Part III reaches a shocking conclusion: the current system uses a "democratic" pretense to justify its existence—and consume its voters.

Part II of our series on voting, investigates the concept of "positive democracy", i.e. the idea that democracy is, itself, worth pursuing.

Part I of "Of Voting: On Voting One's Self-Interest", explores the morally-fraught concept of voting one's so-called self-interest.

A poem about Fall and the seasonal changes she demands of us.

Modern America has become a place in which the goal of most businesses, is to separate as much of the consumer from his money as possible.

Author Drew Maglio reflects on the degradation of his home state of Florida, both environmentally and culturally.

If form is now meant to follow function then we live in a world without meaningful ends to be pursued since our ends have simply become...

Obscure and nebulous as it may be, Vico's "New Science" remains a fascinating inquiry into human development guided by Providence.

Part 3 of this series, discusses the paradoxical nature of abstract human rights and their insufficiency when applied to concrete politics.

Genuine education is a process by which the rational human being orders his or her soul in accordance with Universal Principles.

200 years after Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was written, it would seem that humanity en masse has failed to grasp and apply its motif.

Towards what end does metaphysical philosophy aim at?: An Introduction to the world of Form and Matter in Aristotle's "Metaphysics."

Heralded as a proponent of self-regulating markets, limited government, and free-market “capitalism,” Adam Smith is often misrepresented.

What are we doing when we make resolutions to change? How do they strengthen our will and when is it rational to quit them?

The interplay of agency and Fate Homer's Odyssey play against one another in a manner which leads one to doubt if true agency exists at all.

In light of the recent "Big Tech" purge, remember: those who embrace censorship are in bad company historically speaking.