I wrote a short essay on Chinese architect Liu Jiakun for my newsletter. Liu, who won this year’s Pritzker Prize, is an architecture whose work I find stunningly beautiful.

Latest issue of my newsletter:

“The Wolrd is Run by Brilliant Idiots” and what we can learn from Holy Fools about how to respond.

One of the real problems in modern life is that people who are good at being civil lack strong convictions and people who have strong convictions lack civility.

RIP, Martin Marty.

The story of the foolish wiseman—on Thomas More, Niels Bohr, & the power of paradox in a black-and-white world.

Here’s a very insightful essay on the changing role — and increasing importance of — human judgment in the world of AI: Hollis Robbins, “AI & the Last Mile." A couple excerpts:

While we worry about AI replacing human judgment, …

Parables are strange; finding your life transformed into a parable, even stranger.

It’s a glorious time to be an American tennis fan. Half of the US Open men’s & women’s semifinalists are American! Unreal. 🎾

A brief, powerful interview with Uruguay’s former philosopher-president, who is now battling cancer.

Though I disagree with him on many things, he has a lot of profound, simple wisdom to share:

Humans can create infinite needs. The market …

The power of journalism rises & falls inversely to journalists' belief in the power of journalism. The more journalists are convinced of their world-changing power, the less anyone listens. The more they just do their job, the more people tune …