Tag: Ruin

One of the beautiful realities about white-collar work that no one explains to you until you arrive within it is that executives do not care about anything except financial returns, despite claiming to care about everything in all-hands meetings. It is the greatest double standar...

Today, September 17th, is the sixth anniversary of buying my own house. I know it may seem like a small thing to some, but for me, it is one of my proudest accomplishments. I’ve wanted to own my own home since I was a teenager. It was just as big a part of my fantasies about adult life as g...

Karens are everywhere. Whether we like to enjoy our meal, drink a cup of coffee, or go to a pool, it seems that these people always try to stick their noses in everyone else’s business. We’ve seen their ignorance in every case of violence and stupidity caught on camera. Photo by&n...

When Americans think about the United States and its system of government, probably the first thing that comes to mind is the fierce and intractable conflict between the Democrats and the Republicans. Not our wondrous ‘democracy.’ Not our vaunted tripartite government with its checks ...

In the previous essay, we discussed Recursive Social Darwinism, a concept invented to better understand the resurgence of popularity of conceptualizing race as a biological fact as opposed to a sociocultural construct. Through examining the history of cultural anthropology, an introduction to cultur...

My grave adventure began about two weeks earlier in Ilulissat, a quaint little town surrounded by giant icebergs. On a bright August morning my colleagues and I boarded the M/V Tulu, a former Danish Navy vessel. As an oceanographer, I’ve had more than a few spiritual experiences at s...