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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Reality and the Golden Mean (opens the original)

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    Lucretius and the Ancient Greeks before him had the insight that much that is real is hidden. For two thousand years man has pulled the veils back to find what he could find. But many a failure has been hailed as great success only further serving to hide again that which would be revealed.How coincidental is it that just as the old gods of Greece and Rome are being put to bed another religion arises in Christianity? Then as Christianity is being similarly questioned Kant posits his reason as th

  2. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    Mind The Gap (opens the original)

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    It was St. Patrick’s Day. It was my senior year in high school. I had worn a green wig with a St. Patrick’s hat over it for the keg party. Wolfe’s pond was a short walk from the school and that’s where we had our keg parties. These parties would run the full school day and afterwards we would head back to school to take the buses home. It was there that I was picked up and arrested for possession of marijuana. Somebody had pointed me out. I saw them point me out and I was easy to keep track of b

  3. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    Wu Wei (opens the original)

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    When I was twenty-five, I had been in therapy for five years, and I had the insight, the realization, that I could do anything that I wanted to do. I’m not sure how this sounds to other people, but to me, it was an epiphany. I was quietly filled with a feeling of freedom and the power that it brought. This was the product of about eight years of individual and group therapy. I also found myself drawn to spirituality. I was fascinated by the philosophy and practice that I saw in Taoism, Buddhism,

  4. Issue · Jul 21, 2026

    The Burden of Time: A Logical Argument (opens the original)

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    What is the direct observational evidence for time as a fundamental feature of reality?Not evidence of change. Not evidence of movement. Not evidence of decay or sequence or accumulation. Those are all real and well documented. The question is specifically: what do we observe that requires time itself — as an independent, fundamental feature of reality — to explain?Physics has never been forced to answer that question cleanly. This argument forces it.This Argument Is Not New The claim that time

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