Main Themes I’m Working on Now…
Lifting the Weight of Culture
Culture shapes us before we can have our say about it. Sometimes, within its rhythms and tempos, new modes of experience become possible—ways of sensing, relating, and moving through cultures whose weight has, for a moment, become a little less burdensome.
Eternal Recurrence
This isn’t really that hard to get. Physics is starting to catch up with it.

A collection of works on the physics, religion, philosophy, and history of how we’ve composed time
Practices of Time in the New Testament
The Grand Narrative
How to see common things as compositions of time
Chronology
A running list of posts

Vesuvius: Time as Contingency
An essay about thinking time as contingency

Levinas

No Escape: Seneca on Earthquakes and Death
Pacific Ring of Fire Earthquake Zone Map

Stoic Frontiers

Virtue without Truth

Stoicism and Using Your Time Wisely

Reason, Emotion and “Stepping Back”

Moral Responsibility and the Flow of Time

What is a “Confession”? Part 1

Seneca and Rorty (on Freud)

Letter 113, From Pedantic to Practical

When Is “Interiority” not on the Inside?

The Apolitical Baggage of Seneca

Tranquility, Citizenship, Interiority

Reason, Politics, Anger, Nonviolence

Reason Is Always Provoked

Anger, Delay, Reason

Anger, Reason, Bureaucratic Violence
