Shop Class, Life Imprisoned in Tehran, and Communication Control
“It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time.”
Trapped in Iran | 1843 Magazine
The Economist's Middle Eastern correspondent was granted a rare visa into Iran, but was detained for an entire summer. This account of his experience in Tehran (both imprisoned and in a sort of city-arrest) is fascinating and surprising.
How Extensive Is FBI Domestic Spying? We’re Trying To Find Out | Cato Institute
Patrick Eddington has filed 400 FOIA requests in the last year in order to determine if domestic groups are being targeted by the FBI for their constitutionally-protected activities.
Living in Detention: A Matter of Health Justice | The Lancet
A series of articles reporting on the health conditions of the 30 million people who are imprisoned for some length of time annually. This article serves as the executive summary.
Shop Class as Soulcraft | Matthew B. Crawford
From the article: "A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our mode of inhabiting the world: more passive and more dependent. And indeed, there are fewer occasions for the kind of spiritedness that is called forth when we take things in hand for ourselves, whether to fix them or to make them." Mr. Crawford eloquently extols the virtue of craftsmanship and working with your hands, a pursuit far greater than the mindless clerkships that await many so-called "knowledge workers."
A Blue Sky Vision for Social Media | Areo Magazine
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced recently that Twitter would be funding a project to build or find an open-source social media client, an arrangement similar to how email is a client. There are interesting implications for free speech and decentralization of communication control.
Quotation from "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," by C.S. Lewis.