I’m constantly fascinated with the “fine line.” On a grand scale, cosmologists hypothesize that had certain physical constants varied – by seemingly infinitesimal amounts – no mind would be here to ask, “Why is there not nothing?” On the moral front, Alexander Solzhenitsyn spoke compellingly of the fine line separating good and evil that “passes [...]

“We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.” ~Paul Mazer, Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s It’s possible you’ve recently acquired a copy of [...]