Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's bestselling new book Abundance has kicked off a new political movement — and a vigorous internal debate on the future of the Democratic Party.| brinklindsey.substack.com
Back in the late 1980s, I watched a PBS special on the human mind and learned about the terrible fate of Clive Wearing, a man unable to make new memories.| brinklindsey.substack.com
There’s something called wilderness therapy that offers a distinctive approach to helping troubled young people: make them live outside for a couple of months, camping and backpacking with therapists and a small group of peers.| brinklindsey.substack.com
In my recent essay on our growing predilection for virtual experience over the real thing, I ended with a question.| brinklindsey.substack.com
An Exercise in Definite Optimism (Part 3)| brinklindsey.substack.com
An Exercise in Definite Optimism (Part 2)| brinklindsey.substack.com
In recent essays I’ve been making an affirmative case for an “economic independence” movement — that is, a concerted effort to empower families and communities to be less dependent on market and state provision.| brinklindsey.substack.com
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.| brinklindsey.substack.com
An Exercise in Definite Optimism (Part 1)| brinklindsey.substack.com
Thanks for reading The Permanent Problem!| brinklindsey.substack.com
We are able to say that communist central planning failed because we can compare its results with those of capitalism.| brinklindsey.substack.com
