Is being moral good for you? According to the prevailing moral code, it is not. And I think that’s obscene. If—as conventional morality holds—being moral consists in self-sacrificially serving others, then in order to be fully moral, you must sacrifice for others as a...
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale illustrates the relationship between liberty and self-esteem, which I explore in this new video. Continue Watching
In this video, Martin highlights the differences between the Romantic and the Naturalist school of art by providing two comparative case studies. In doing so, he explains his preference for the former over the latter and argues that the Romanticists essentially differ...
If you’ve ever been a regular gym-goer, you’ve probably witnessed the huge spike in patronage most gyms experience in January. My gym gets swamped every year with people rushing to implement a New Year’s resolution to exercise consistently or lose weight. Yet, by...
Charles Dickens wrote a variety of novellas and short stories related to Christmas and New Year’s, many with a supernatural element. Though the plots differ, there are some themes that are common among them. In this article, I’ll deal with three such stories and...
Do you have a lot of long notes from books, videos, or courses that sit in your Google Drive, Notion, or Obsidian gathering dust? Are these notes full of good ideas, but they feel like a chore to pick through and use in your creative work? I know I feel this. The last...
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And it makes the season all the more joyful and meaningful. Do you love this time of year? I do, too. I especially love the three big holidays—Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s—and how they form the season of reason. It’s as if...
