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The man knew how to fix a roof. Not beautifully, but well enough it didn’t leak. He could wire a house without burning it down. He could plant a row of beans and keep them alive until they gave him more beans. He had callouses on both hands and never bragged about them. That’s how

In the modern economic landscape, one where credit scores and bank loans are the go-to ways to get financial help, there’s a system that has been around for centuries and still holds its ground. It’s called Susu, and it’s an informal lending method that has deep roots in West Africa. While it might sound old-fashioned

When we talk about safety nets in America, the conversation almost always swings back to money. Retirement accounts, emergency savings, insurance policies, college funds; we build them, fret over them, argue about them. And rightly so. Financial stability is foundational. But somewhere along the way, we’ve confused it for the whole structure. The truth is,

A man wakes up early. He puts on his boots. He eats his breakfast. He walks out the door. He goes to work. He does this every day until his hair turns gray and his back bends and his hands don’t grip like they used to. Then one day he stops. They give him a

T.S. Eliot, not often accused of excessive optimism, once remarked that the very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. It is a gentle sentence, but not a naïve one. Libraries, to Eliot, were not mere warehouses of parchment or printed page. They were

It is a curious feature of modern life, particularly in the affluent portions of the world, that comfort has not engendered contentment, nor abundance brought with it any profound sense of peace. Instead, there seems to arise from the very surplus of convenience a new breed of suffering; petulant, exaggerated, and often wholly invented. These

For centuries, the driving force of economic progress has been the pursuit of profit. Factories churned, assembly lines hummed, markets expanded, and societies reaped the material rewards of industry. But in the wake of this relentless push for growth, something essential has been lost. Communities have hollowed out. Workers have been reduced to numbers on

It is one of the peculiar tragedies of modern civilization that we have learned to calculate with astonishing accuracy the orbits of planets and the decay of particles, but remain inept in our treatment of the human soul. We are taught to examine matter, to dissect life, to count and measure and evaluate; yet we

The man at the bar had a steady hand. That was more than could be said for most of them. He lifted his glass, took a sip, and set it down again, precisely where it had been before. “You know,” he said, “they got a new way of fixing people now. They tell you to

In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein has written a work of such moral urgency and intellectual clarity that it resists being shelved alongside other political nonfiction. It is less a book than a flare shot into the night sky—illuminating, disorienting, and impossible to ignore. Klein’s central thesis is bold: that over the last half-century, economic

Nietzsche said you can endure any what if you have a why. Frankl said man is driven by the search for meaning. I say they both drank too much coffee and stayed up too late thinking about things that maybe don’t need thinking. If a man is drowning, don’t ask him what it means. Just

There exists, beneath the surface of daily life, a silent architecture of cause and effect; a structure so persistent and so subtle that we are seldom aware of it. It's not announced by trumpets, nor does it submit easily to our desire for quick explanations. And yet, whether we approach the matter as scientists, theologians,