Introduction What happens to a person who gets everything, and then loses it all?That question has followed me for years. Not as a history lesson, but as something closer to home. Most of us will never conquer a continent. But almost everyone climbs something. A career, a business, a dream, a family. And sooner or later, almost everyone reaches the moment … [Read more...] about What If You Could Interview Napoleon on Saint Helena?
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3 Modern-Day Stories Inspired by American Hagwon
Introduction What If Everything You Sacrificed for Success Wasn't Worth the Price?Three original modern-day stories inspired by Min Jin Lee's American HagwonA father sleeps in his delivery van so his son can afford college preparation.A successful doctor discovers that the person her eight-year-old daughter misses most is her own mother.A university graduate … [Read more...] about 3 Modern-Day Stories Inspired by American Hagwon
War and Peace: An Imaginary Conversation on Life
Introduction What if the life we keep trying to reach is making us overlook the people already beside us?In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, ambition, love, faith, and family unfold within events no individual can fully control. People pursue recognition, belonging, certainty, and happiness. Then life interrupts. A battle changes the meaning of glory. A … [Read more...] about War and Peace: An Imaginary Conversation on Life
The Waste Land Modern Stories: 5 Emotional Tales
Introduction What would The Waste Land look like if T. S. Eliot were observing ordinary people living today?Not characters wandering through 1920s London, but a technology executive surrounded by screens, a Seoul attorney who keeps postponing his life, a social media star who gets almost everything she wants, a Chicago restaurant owner suddenly confronted by … [Read more...] about The Waste Land Modern Stories: 5 Emotional Tales
The Great Gatsby: 5 Modern Stories About Dreams We Chase
Introduction The Great Gatsby is filled with people reaching for something just beyond them: love, wealth, belonging, another social class, another identity, another chance at the past.A century later, the objects have changed, but the longing has not.These five modern stories follow people chasing their own versions of Gatsby's green light: an old love, an … [Read more...] about The Great Gatsby: 5 Modern Stories About Dreams We Chase
What If Ayn Rand Debated JD Vance on the Soul of Conservatism?
What if Ayn Rand gave conservatism its courage — but Christianity had to give it back its soul? Introduction by By JD VanceThere are books you read, and there are books that read you.For many young conservatives, Atlas Shrugged was one of those books.It looked at ambition and said, “Do not be ashamed.”It looked at the builder and said, “You are not the … [Read more...] about What If Ayn Rand Debated JD Vance on the Soul of Conservatism?