Tag: Self-Improvement

  • The Complicated Case of Jordan Peterson

    Jordan Peterson is usually treated as either a prophet or a monster. To his admirers, he is one of the few public figures willing to defend responsibility, meaning, free speech, and psychological seriousness in a shallow age. To his critics, he is a reactionary culture-war figure who dresses conservative instincts in academic language and speaks…

  • When Hope Becomes Procrastination

    Hope Is Not a Plan Hope is usually treated as a virtue. We admire it. We romanticize it. We tell people not to lose it. And for good reason: hope can keep people alive through failure, illness, loneliness, poverty, grief, and long stretches where nothing seems to be working yet. But hope has a darker…