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the midst of turmoil", "url": "https://johnrakestraw.com/post/quotidian-life-in-the-midst-of-turmoil/", "published_at": "2025-01-22T20:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-a374-726e-b3c7-6746fa6ebed6", "title": "What to say on a day like today?", "url": "https://johnrakestraw.com/post/what-to-say-on-a-day-like-today/", "published_at": "2025-01-20T15:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-a374-726e-b3c7-6746faa26c1c", "title": "Complications in Sagen's pale blue dot", "url": "https://johnrakestraw.com/post/complications-in-sagen-s-pale-blue-dot/", "published_at": "2025-01-19T16:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-a374-726e-b3c7-6746fb9493cb", "title": "Writing for clarity, but not total clarity", "url": "https://johnrakestraw.com/post/writing-and-the-unclear-remains/", "published_at": "2025-01-18T20:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878f-a374-726e-b3c7-6746fb98dc63", "title": "The internet I want", "url": "https://johnrakestraw.com/post/the-internet-i-want/", "published_at": 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What if social status were based on time of arrival?original ↗

14 Aug 2025

Reading updates original ↗

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August 2025 original ↗

14 Aug 2025

We used to think, but now we know original ↗

7 Aug 2025

Scholarship's three questions original ↗

3 Aug 2025

Age of science and technology: The beginning of the end?original ↗

2 Aug 2025

Walker Percy on the self, the other, and the world original ↗

1 Aug 2025

A teacher's legacy original ↗

1 Aug 2025

July 2025 original ↗

2 Jul 2025

Borders, commerce, immigration original ↗

1 Jul 2025

Study the Self original ↗

27 Jun 2025

The time for art is now original ↗

26 Jun 2025

Reading, learning, and compassion original ↗

24 Jun 2025

Confronting the madness of fascism original ↗

14 Jun 2025

To be expelled from a state is to be expelled from humanity original ↗

10 Jun 2025

Little time for reflection, but still holding out hope original ↗

8 Jun 2025

Echoes of the past; responding in the present original ↗

8 Jun 2025

May 2025 reading report original ↗

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The irony of autonomous vehicles in a community of drivers original ↗

1 Jun 2025

Life is beautiful, even in the wake of an accident original ↗

30 May 2025

Living through loss, seeing the light original ↗

29 May 2025

On the recurrence of genocide original ↗

28 May 2025

On the brink. Hope or despair?original ↗

28 May 2025

Bezos's Amazonian grandiosity original ↗

26 May 2025

Value, worth, and commoditization original ↗

26 May 2025

Impact of economic inequality goes beyond money original ↗

25 May 2025

Colonialism, fascism, totalitarianism original ↗

24 May 2025

Aligning the two selves original ↗

24 May 2025

Word for the day: Hypernormalization original ↗

23 May 2025

A reading report original ↗

22 May 2025

The power of reading – the power of translation original ↗

21 May 2025

Words instead of action original ↗

19 May 2025

Two bodies: the innocent and the implicated original ↗

17 May 2025

Small town Texas roots original ↗

14 May 2025

Connections across time and space original ↗

13 May 2025

Writing is mysterious original ↗

9 May 2025

May 2025 original ↗

9 May 2025

Treasures of independent bookstores original ↗

29 Apr 2025

Rights and obligations original ↗

25 Apr 2025

Universities teaching ignorance original ↗

16 Apr 2025

Plugging for democracy original ↗

16 Apr 2025

Contemplating Mortality original ↗

14 Apr 2025

The character of a nationalist original ↗

14 Apr 2025

Re-thinking my reading (yet again)original ↗

13 Apr 2025

The empty power of authoritarians original ↗

12 Apr 2025

Buying books I don't read original ↗

12 Apr 2025

Social media: advertising the self original ↗

11 Apr 2025

On the language of parenting original ↗

11 Apr 2025

Schools, news media, awareness, and meeting the challenges original ↗

2 Apr 2025

Ecology, ethics, and governmental power original ↗

1 Apr 2025

April 2025 original ↗

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Selecting books; selecting ideas original ↗

31 Mar 2025

Self as the endpoint of history original ↗

28 Mar 2025

Why write?original ↗

27 Mar 2025

Permanently Philosophically Puzzled original ↗

26 Mar 2025

Intimacies: Entering the world of an author original ↗

26 Mar 2025

We write to taste life twice original ↗

25 Mar 2025

Using the HTML details disclosure element original ↗

21 Mar 2025

Nature: Commodity or Community original ↗

12 Mar 2025

Political despair in 1939 original ↗

6 Mar 2025

Success: Solo achievement, others' support, or luck?original ↗

5 Mar 2025

A. J. Ayer, Mike Tyson, and Alfred North Whitehead original ↗

5 Mar 2025

Shy octopus looking at you original ↗

3 Mar 2025

March 2025 original ↗

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I cannot be silent original ↗

1 Mar 2025

Conservation, Narratives, and Identity original ↗

27 Feb 2025

Free Speech and Democracy original ↗

22 Feb 2025

Ruminating on language and word frequency original ↗

19 Feb 2025

A lot goes on inside a fish original ↗

8 Feb 2025

February 2025 original ↗

1 Feb 2025

On keeping a notebook original ↗

1 Feb 2025

The shortcomings of the United States original ↗

31 Jan 2025

On the abolition of all political parties original ↗

31 Jan 2025

Remembering Germany's past; reflecting on the present original ↗

29 Jan 2025

Power of great fiction original ↗

27 Jan 2025

Quotidian life in the midst of turmoil original ↗

22 Jan 2025

What to say on a day like today?original ↗

20 Jan 2025

Complications in Sagen's pale blue dot original ↗

19 Jan 2025

Writing for clarity, but not total clarity original ↗

18 Jan 2025

The internet I want original ↗

16 Jan 2025

Mastodon's Eugen Rochko and the turtle in the mud original ↗

14 Jan 2025

Taking note in emacs: a move to denote original ↗

14 Jan 2025

The connections of music, with strings attached original ↗

12 Jan 2025

Lies undercut community original ↗

12 Jan 2025

Imagination beyond knowledge original ↗

11 Jan 2025

Ramesses II, Assad, and Elon Musk original ↗

11 Jan 2025

Factory farming: a life worth living?original ↗

10 Jan 2025

Writing and Control original ↗

10 Jan 2025

On leaving Facebook original ↗

9 Jan 2025

Consciousness, conspiracies, and the vanishing researcher original ↗

9 Jan 2025

Three hundred elephants in a gas tank original ↗

7 Jan 2025

New beginnings original ↗

7 Jan 2025

January 2025 original ↗

7 Jan 2025

The impositional power of the canon: safe spaces original ↗

5 Jan 2025

Tracking my reading and books on tap original ↗

1 Jan 2025

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Fall 2024 original ↗

31 Dec 2024

The power of powerlessness original ↗

4 Dec 2024

The end is where we start from original ↗

21 Nov 2024