There is a painting in the Prado's collection, hung for years in Spain's Congress of Deputies, that shows three men about to die. Antonio Gisbert painted it in 1860. Juan de Padilla stands at the center, calm, his hand on […]
Culture is what people do when no one is telling them what to do. Law can be written in an afternoon and repealed in another. Culture takes generations to grow and generations to lose, and it decides, long before any […]
Thomas Paine opened Common Sense with that distinction in January of 1776, months before any congress had declared anything, and the distinction is the whole argument this piece is built on. Society — the actual fabric of people cooperating, trading, […]
Almost no profession scores its practitioners the way tennis scores its own. A surgeon's skill is filtered through hospital politics, referral networks, and malpractice exposure before it becomes a reputation. A software engineer's output is filtered through a manager's judgment, […]
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