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The Privilege of "Protecting your Peace"
When grief, responsibility, and modern boundary culture collide
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On commonplacing #1: the what, the why, and the how
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On the desire to be disgustingly well-read
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My Journaling Ecosystem
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On why I keep a journal
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Cultivating an Intellectual Life
Notes from Cultivating an Intellectual Life #1: January
From mermaids to Beethoven - this month's check-in on my 2026 intention
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On Cultivating an Intellectual Life
Notes for 2026
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Philosophy Curriculum #27: Why Plato banned Homer from his city
Plato's Republic Pt V: Education, Myth, and the Problem of Censorship
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On Platonic Love
What we've misunderstood - and lost.
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Philosophy Curriculum #26: Pig City v Fever City
Plato's Republic Pt 4: Is Growth Always Progress?
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Philosophy Curriculum #25: The First City
Plato's Republic Pt 2: On why a perfectly organised life still feels empty
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Philosophy Curriculum #24: What is Justice?
Is injustice always preferable?
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On the Fragility of Belonging
Ian McKellen’s “Strangers” speech, Hannah Arendt, and Zadie Smith on belonging
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On Nostalgia
Welcome to The Studio Edit: your weekly curated, not calculated, curiosity feed
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On banning Plato
what exactly was banned and what censorship does to education
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On Wuthering Heights #4: the philosophical
Notes on the being and knowing
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On Wuthering Heights #3: outsiderhood
Thoughts on belonging, distance, and exclusion in Wuthering Heights
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Girl, Woman, Other: thoughts
review of our January book club read
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On Wuthering Heights #2: The Problem of Adaptation
How the earliest adaptations sought to soften and flatten Emily Brontë's epic
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