What Did You Expect?
“What the hell did you expect me to do? You told me to love my neighbors, to model the life of Jesus. To be kind and considerate, and to stand…
How To Aim
Have you ever fired a projectile or tried to put a ball in any sort of goal? Have you ever aimed at something and then worked to get closer and…
Climbing the Mountain
Right and wrong. Smart and dumb. Tall and short. Binaries are a brilliant development in human understanding. Rank ordering is tedious and inefficient, so it saves time and brainpower to…
Why Dogs Are Better Than People
I’ve heard that sentence many times, and I heard it again yesterday, “Dogs are better than people.” But why? It actually didn’t take me too long to figure it out.…
8 Rules For How To Be A Man
It’s a confusing time to be a man in the world. So many people have so many opinions on the right and wrong ways to be a man. Fortunately, you’ve…
A Thought on Trauma
Jordan Peterson was interviewed at the Aspen Ideas Festival a few years ago and, during the Q and A portion, John McWhorter asked him a question: How do you know…
The REAL Meaning of Life: A Correction
In 2014, my family took a trip to Hawaii. Man, it was a great little vacation. We stayed at this hotel with a patio out back where we watched the…
We’re All Taylor Swift
I want to take you back. Remember the distant year 2013? Something happened that year that no one was expecting. Some millennial girl released a pop song and it wasn’t…
The Virtue of Pleasure
“The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.” The great Greek philosopher Aristippus was a…
How To Make The World A Better Place
I want to make the world a better place. I want the world to be better today than it was yesterday, better tomorrow than it is today, better when my…