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The First Tool

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 0 min read Maggie Swofford

“the first tool / is time.”

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Song of the Hour

December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 0 min read M. Isfandyar Khan

“Song of the hour, / Be mine,”

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Where You Expect

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 0 min read Maggie Swofford

“In the formidable cosmos, / he is where I want him”

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Flight

February 25, 2020March 9, 2020 0 min read Rachel Bueide

“Release this and your lonesome heart will wake / The papery wings fluttered”

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If Kipling Knew When

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 1 min read Jenny Lee Hurst

“When I can’t trust my restless fingers near you, / But my gaze returns, because it wants to.”

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Lucky

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 0 min read Apratim Mitra

“I heard the other day / Of gold mine workers”

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A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

An online publication focused on human flourishing, taking a pragmatic approach to ideas. We care about ideas that help us to live well together, focusing on their practical consequences.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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