Archive - Inner Life

Is All Literature Propaganda?

Yes, probably, I think

Aug 5 •

July 2025

How Huckleberries Earned The Nickname "Purple Gold"

Memories of a Montana tradition

Jul 29 •

Joshua Doležal

Greta Thunberg And I

Being Truly Grateful For The Little Yellow Canary In The Coal Mine

Jul 22 •

Jonathan Foster

How Despair may Lead

Job, Oedipus, Lear, the connection, the search

Jul 15 •

<Mary L. Tabor>

Notes on a Theory of Literary Decline

Macintyre, Conrad, Wittgenstein

Jul 11 •

On the Absurdity of Parasite Being the Best Movie of the Century

Reflections on The Times' list

Jul 4 •

June 2025

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 •

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