You Are What You Practice by Sherry Ning Everybody is religious, in the truest and most original sense of what it means to be religious: Religion comes from the Latin relegere , "to go over again; to carefully observe." And what are we made up of if not our attention and desires? What are we spendin...
The Three City Problem by Luke Burgis For most of Western history, two cities have contended for the human soul: Athens, which forms people through reason, and Jerusalem, which forms them through faith. Every serious account of intention — of how a person comes to want something and act on it — desc...
Are Great Places Accidental? by Reece Martin City planning is sometimes dismissed as hopeless. Doomed to the same failures of interventionist overreach that state planning has suffered from since the earliest days. But planning is how we make our intentions at the societal and urban scale manifest....
