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In The Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset writes (translated from the original Spanish): > The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the...

One day in 2022, I visited the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and I saw one of Yves Klein's monochrome blue paintings in person for the first time. Here is a photo that does zero justice to what I saw. I had learned about Klein in art history class,...

jenn Hi Jas! After our recent meetup on moral mazes, we were talking in the KWR discord about how much one can trust someone who says that there are no mazes or status games being played in their corner of the world. You had some interesting things to say in...

Previously: Donations, The Third Year / Donations, The First Year In 2025, like in all previous years, I did what I was supposed to do. As each paycheck came in, before I did anything else, I dutifully put ten percent of it away in my "donations" savings account, to be...

This post was originally published on November 11th, 2025. I've been spending some time reworking and cleaning up the Inkhaven posts I'm most proud of, and completed the process for this one today. Today, Canada officially lost its measles elimination status. Measles was previously declared eliminated in Canada in 1998,...

1. We've Been On This Ride Before Virginia Woolf, writing at the dawn of cinema (1926), expresses doubt about whether or not this new medium has any legs: > "Anna [Karenina] falls in love with Vronsky” – that is to say, the lady in black velvet falls into the arms...

For the past year I've been sinking into the Great Books via the Penguin Great Ideas series, because I wanted to be conversant in the Great Conversation. I am occasionally frustrated by this endeavour, but overall, it's been fun! I'm learning a lot about my civilization and the various curmudgeons...