Archive - Inner Life

My Summer with Middlemarch

Closely reading George Eliot's 1871 classic and being inspired (again!) by Michel Foucault

Jun 24 •

haley larsen, phd

Reimagining Pascal's Wager

Note: Today’s essay is a postscript to a recent piece for The Republic of Letters. It’s not necessary to read the earlier essay to follow my meditation…

Jun 17 •

Joshua Doležal

When Grief Opens Your Heart

You start a Substack.

Jun 10 •

Has Time Run Out for You?

On Becoming a Writer

Jun 3 •

<Mary L. Tabor>

May 2025

Jason Brennan's Good Work If You Can Keep It

Everything You Wanted To Know About Becoming a Professor

May 30 •

My Positive Propaganda

On Losing My American Exceptionalism

May 22 •

My Daughter and I Wove New Tales Each Night

We played the ‘create a story’ game throughout her young years.

May 13 •

The End of "Good Jobs" and the Rise of the First-Person Industrial Complex

Around the time I left higher ed, in 2021, I started lurking around LinkedIn to sniff out what other recovering academics were doing.

May 6 •

Joshua Doležal

April 2025

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

Be the writer of your own story.

Apr 29 •

Earth Day Thoughts

A poem and watercolors

Apr 22 •

<Mary L. Tabor>

Encounter in Rome

What do you mean by love?

Apr 15 •

Reflections on the poet, critic, and editor at 80

Apr 10 •

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