Archive - The Hidden Canon

Crusade Against the Void

What is the purpose of a civilization?

Jul 25 •

Once an Android, Always an Android

Why my friends can't escape the corporate life

Jul 21 •

The Price of the Party

A journey through expat raves and third-world slums — exposing the hidden costs of globalization, and the winners who don’t deserve to win.

Jul 18 •

Heading to India

Discovering the illusion of uniqueness

Jul 16 •

When Ideas Become Gods

How unquestioned abstractions forge the invisible bonds of society

Jul 16 •

Everyone’s Got A Story

How I learned the art of getting people to tell me their stories

Jul 15 •

The Rebel & The Reporter

The kid enters the world of journalism

Jul 8 •

Gospel of Stress

Success is Heaven. Failure is Hell.

Jul 5 •

Merchants of Narrative

As a WSJ correspondent, I found out what journalism really is

Jul 4 •

The Desert Beyond Desire

The endless thirst of modern ambition – and the quiet, eternal peace that waits just beyond it.

Jul 2 •

Gospel of Progress

How our blind worship of perpetual growth conceals civilization’s deepest cracks

Jul 1 •

May 2025

The Great Indulgences

Bread and circuses for a global elite

May 7 •

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