“Rock music is intrinsically trivial, and I say this as a rock music fan who has been to more concerts than I can remember. Rock began as teenage rebellion in the affluent post-war years and was rapidly commodified. The very concept of “teenager” emerged as part of a perceived commercial...

My question about all this is: And then? You rush through the writing, the researching, the watching, the listening, you’re done with it, you get it behind you — and what is in front of you? Well, death, for one thing. For the main thing. But in the more immediate...

Reading about x doesn’t just teach you about x; it also teaches you how to write. If we replaced reading, would anyone need to be good at writing? There is a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can’t think well without writing well, and you...

[Man] received a double task to perform: first, to cultivate and preserve the garden of Eden, and second, to eat freely of all the trees in the garden except of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The first task defines his relationship to the earth, the second...

The app I use for podcasts is Overcast. It’s free, it supports playlists and queues, has some nice sound enhancing features, and is generally much better than the native Apple Podcasts app. I broke the list up into three categories. Some of these I listen to more regularly than others,...