Day: January 31, 2011

• January 31, 2011

  Michael Lind on the 5 worldviews dominating American politics

  In “The Five Worldviews That Define American Politics,” Michael Lind constructs a powerful conceptual framework in order to explain the trenchant, abiding political disagreements among Americans. The reason that you and I can’t see eye-to-eye is not that we disagree about the facts on the ground; it is that we begin from entirely different first…
• January 31, 2011

  On the joy of biking

  Is there anything more wondrous than biking again after a period of long rest following injury? Nietzsche calls happiness that “feeling that power increases–that a resistance is overcome.” The return to exercising capacities. The joy of movement for its own sake. The sublimation of aggression in the form of purposive movement. The enjoyment of the…