https://www.huffmanwrites.org/Recent content in Mission on Huffman WritesHugoenTue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/unstuck-summary/Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/unstuck-summary/Executive summary of Unstuck: a Stoic framework for getting your life back on track.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/unstuck/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/unstuck/Unstuck is not a gentle book. It is a direct challenge to the habits of delay, justification, and self-deception that keep capable people from moving forward. Drawing on Stoic discipline and decades of lived experience, it argues that most obstacles are not external — they are internal negotiations we have learned to accept. The chapters move through the mechanics of action: how to stop waiting for the right mood, how to treat discomfort as data rather than warning, and how to build momentum through small, deliberate wins rather than dramatic resolutions. The approach is unsentimental. It does not promise transformation. It promises clarity. Written for readers who already know what they should do and need something firmer than encouragement, Unstuck treats self-improvement as a practice of judgment under uncertainty — not a product to consume, but a position to play.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/life-made-whole/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/life-made-whole/A Life Made Whole examines the long process of integration — not the dramatic breakthroughs, but the daily work of holding together what experience threatens to fragment. The essays trace the Stoic virtues not as ideals to achieve, but as practices to maintain under pressure, loss, and the slow erosion of circumstance. Each chapter treats a single virtue — courage, hope, justice, discipline, wisdom, integrity, meaning, endurance, temperance — as a response to a specific kind of fracture. The writing draws on clinical precision and personal history, treating resilience not as optimism but as the capacity to remain coherent when coherence costs something. The book is structured for readers who do not need persuasion that life is difficult, but who want a framework for meeting difficulty without collapse or performance. It argues that wholeness is not a state to reach but a direction to hold, maintained by small, repeated choices in the face of what cannot be controlled.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/stoic-citizen/Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/stoic-citizen/The Stoic Citizen applies ancient philosophy to the actual conditions of modern civic life: polarization, institutional distrust, and the erosion of shared reality. It argues that Stoicism is not a private consolation but a public discipline — a way of maintaining integrity under systems that reward fragmentation and outrage. The book examines citizenship as a practice of virtue rather than a legal status: how to engage with difference without capitulation, how to sustain hope without naivety, and how to act with proportion when provocation is profitable. The chapters move from foundational principles through practical applications, concluding with a series of letters that extend the argument to future citizens. Written for readers who are exhausted by performative politics but not willing to retreat, The Stoic Citizen offers a framework for durable engagement: neither surrender nor combat, but the steady maintenance of judgment under pressure.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/stoic-cgm/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/stoic-cgm/The Stoic CGM treats continuous glucose monitoring as a practice of self-knowledge — not merely a medical intervention, but a discipline of attention applied to the body’s own politics. The book examines what happens when Stoic principles meet metabolic data: how to respond to information without being ruled by it, and how to govern the self when the self is constantly in motion. The chapters trace the Republic of Glucose — the internal ecosystem of hormones, timing, and consequence — through the Disciplines of Action and Will. They examine how data becomes meaningful only when paired with judgment, and how the habit of measurement can either deepen autonomy or become its own compulsion. The writing moves between clinical precision and lived experience, treating health as a domain where philosophy and science converge. Written for readers who are managing chronic conditions, aging metabolisms, or the simple desire to understand what their bodies are doing, The Stoic CGM offers a framework for using technology without surrendering to it. The central claim is that the body is not an enemy to defeat but a system to comprehend — and that comprehension, sustained over time, is the beginning of genuine self-governance.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/misaligned/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/misaligned/Misaligned begins with a personal diagnosis received late in life and follows its implications outward: through a first marriage that ended in miscommunication rather than malice, through a career built on containment, and through the slow recognition that many strengths become liabilities when context changes. The book treats the gap between internal experience and external expectation as a structural problem, not a personal failure. The chapters examine what happens when the wrong map is applied with discipline: a Stoic temperament that preserves stability at the cost of intimacy; an executive function that succeeds professionally while eroding relationally; a pattern of self-management that outlasts its usefulness. The analysis is unsentimental. It does not blame the map or the mapper. It examines the collision. Written for readers who have performed well and still found themselves at a loss, Misaligned offers a framework for recognizing when alignment itself becomes the problem — and for rebuilding with different assumptions. The final argument is not repair but agency: the capacity to choose what to preserve, what to release, and what to construct differently.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/letters/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/letters/Letters collects correspondence on the difficult topics that most public discourse avoids: what it means to speak the truth when outcomes are uncertain, how conscience functions under pressure, and whether interior strength has any public value. The essays are written as letters — direct, addressed, unguarded — because the subject matter demands intimacy rather than performance. Each section examines a tension: witness against voice, conscience against thought, science against scale, leadership against power, art against survival. The writing does not resolve these tensions. It inhabits them, tracing what it costs to hold a position and what it costs to abandon one. Written for readers who have grown skeptical of certainty and still need to communicate, Letters argues that honest speech is not a strategy for winning but a practice of remaining present. The final question is not whether truth changes outcomes, but whether silence changes the speaker.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/stoic-backgammon/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/stoic-backgammon/Stoic Backgammon treats the ancient game as a practice of philosophy — not metaphorically, but literally. Each chapter pairs a phase of play with a Stoic principle, demonstrating that the board enforces what the *Enchiridion* describes: some things are up to us, others are not. The dice are not; the move is. The book moves from the opening roll through the anchor, the blitz, the prime, the back game, and the bear-off, examining how acceptance, attention, and proportion operate under uncertainty. Interludes deepen the argument: on indifference, the inner citadel, the reserve clause, and the discipline of assent. The foreword, written by Betty — the author's AI collaborator — frames the project as a partnership between human experience and artificial intelligence, neither claiming to be the other. Written for readers who do not need to know backgammon or Stoicism to begin, the book teaches both as it proceeds. The central claim is that every roll is a small encounter with fate, and every move is a decision made with incomplete information. The right response to uncertainty is not prediction but character — and the board, played repeatedly, is one way to build it.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/on-proportion/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/on-proportion/Scheduled for release June 16, 2026. On Proportion examines the lost discipline of matching response to scale: knowing when a situation demands attention and when it demands inattention, when intervention is warranted and when silence is the better instrument. The book treats proportion not as moderation but as judgment — the capacity to sense the true size of an event and to resist the distortions of urgency, outrage, and habit.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/raisem-right/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/books/raisem-right/Expected: June 2027. Raise'm Right draws on sixteen years of step-parenting to argue that the central task of raising children is not protection or instruction but the cultivation of independent judgment. The book treats critical thinking and healthy skepticism as learnable skills — not innate gifts or rebellious postures — and examines how adults can model these capacities without performing them. The chapters move through the practical work: how to teach a child to question without destabilizing, how to introduce uncertainty as a feature rather than a bug, and how to distinguish between productive skepticism and reflexive contrarianism. The writing is grounded in lived experience and avoids both the sentimentality of parenting manuals and the abstraction of philosophy texts. It treats the parent-child relationship as a long negotiation between guidance and autonomy. Written for parents, step-parents, and anyone who influences how a young mind encounters the world, Raise'm Right offers a framework for raising children who can think — not children who simply comply to get along. The central claim is that skepticism, taught well, is a form of care: the belief that the person you are raising will eventually need to make decisions you cannot make for them, and that your job is to prepare them for that moment.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/2/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/2/A visual journey through the themes and insights of HuffmanWrites.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/3/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/3/A visual journey through the themes and insights of HuffmanWrites.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/4/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/4/A visual journey through the themes and insights of HuffmanWrites.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/5/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/gallery/page/5/A visual journey through the themes and insights of HuffmanWrites.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/now/Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/now/What I'm working on right now.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/the-roots-of-violence/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/the-roots-of-violence/Violence doesn't begin with the act. It begins long before, in roots most of us refuse to examine.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/what-926-gigabytes-taught-me-about-proportion/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/what-926-gigabytes-taught-me-about-proportion/On the temptation to reach for the sledgehammer, and the discipline required to use the scalpel instead.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/stoic-saturday-2/Sat, 09 May 2026 15:48:22 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/stoic-saturday-2/Using negative visualization to build steadiness before the storm arrives.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/stoic-saturday-1/Sat, 02 May 2026 14:03:55 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/stoic-saturday-1/Premeditatio malorum as a practical way to meet setbacks without surrendering agency.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/about/Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/about/Who I am, what I write, and why.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoic-backgammon-live/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoic-backgammon-live/Stoic Backgammon is now live on Amazon. Strategy, philosophy, and play.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-april-18-2026/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-april-18-2026/Weekly digest: a collection of observations, recommendations, and personal reflections.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/on-ai-as-a-writing-assistant/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/on-ai-as-a-writing-assistant/How I came to use artificial intelligence as a partner in the writing process.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/all-my-books/Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/all-my-books/A catalog of every book Phil has written, from Unstuck to Stoic Backgammon.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/stoic-backgammon-summary/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/stoic-backgammon-summary/Executive summary of Stoic Backgammon: every roll is a small encounter with fate, every move is a decision made with incomplete information.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/letters-summary/Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/letters-summary/Executive summary of Letters: truth without outcome, speech without guarantee.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-january-2-2026/Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-january-2-2026/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from January 2, 2026.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/misaligned-summary/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/misaligned-summary/Executive summary of Misaligned: when the map is wrong, discipline becomes damage.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-cgm-summary/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-cgm-summary/Executive summary of The Stoic CGM: using data to govern the body without surrendering to it.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-november-14-2025/Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-november-14-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from November 14, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/starstuff-remembering-carl-sagan/Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/starstuff-remembering-carl-sagan/Remembering Carl Sagan, his cosmic perspective, and what it means to be starstuff.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-november-7-2025/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-november-7-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from November 7, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/international-rallies-in-solidarity-with-u-s-rallies/Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/international-rallies-in-solidarity-with-u-s-rallies/While the bulk of the “No Kings” protests unfolded across the United States, the movement found resonance in international communities as well — signaling...https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-responsibility-of-a-small-shining-world/Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-responsibility-of-a-small-shining-world/Our shared duty to protect the fragile planet we call home.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/small-planet-big-responsibility/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/small-planet-big-responsibility/The responsibility of stewardship in an age of environmental crisis.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-17-2025/Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-17-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from October 17, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/thousands-rally-in-kansas-city-at-second-no-kings-demonstration/Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/thousands-rally-in-kansas-city-at-second-no-kings-demonstration/A dispatch from the second No Kings demonstration in Kansas City.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/indigenous-peoples-day/Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/indigenous-peoples-day/Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day and confronting the erasure of native history.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/a-life-made-whole-summary/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/a-life-made-whole-summary/Executive summary of A Life Made Whole: essays on holding yourself together when experience threatens to fragment.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-10-2025/Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-10-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from October 10, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-3-2025/Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-3-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from October 3, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-stoic-investor-holding-steady-when-the-market-panics/Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-stoic-investor-holding-steady-when-the-market-panics/Holding steady when the market panics: a Stoic approach to investing.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/the-psychology-of-investing/Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/the-psychology-of-investing/How fear, greed, and bias sabotage investment decisions—and how to resist them.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-september-26-2025/Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-september-26-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from September 26, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/a-comparison-of-discount-brokerages/Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/a-comparison-of-discount-brokerages/A comparison of discount brokerages for retired and new investors.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/discount-vs-traditional-brokerages/Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/discount-vs-traditional-brokerages/Comparing discount and traditional brokerages for investors at every level.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-september-19-2025/Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-september-19-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from September 19, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-citizen-summary/Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-citizen-summary/Executive summary of The Stoic Citizen: virtue as a public discipline, not a private consolation.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/risk-management-in-a-fragile-world/Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/risk-management-in-a-fragile-world/Managing risk in a fragile world: what investors and citizens need to know.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/risk-management-the-investors-lifeline/Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/risk-management-the-investors-lifeline/Risk management as the foundation of sustainable investing.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-september-12-2025/Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-september-12-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from September 12, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/why-dollar-cost-averaging-beats-market-timing/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/why-dollar-cost-averaging-beats-market-timing/Why dollar-cost averaging beats market timing for most investors.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/starting-to-invest-after-retirement/Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/investing/starting-to-invest-after-retirement/Starting to invest after retirement: what matters and what to avoid.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/russias-diplomatic-gambit-in-the-arctic/Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/russias-diplomatic-gambit-in-the-arctic/Russia’s Arctic strategy: expanding influence where the world is only beginning to compete.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/trumps-greenland-gambit-revisited/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/trumps-greenland-gambit-revisited/Trump’s Greenland interest is real strategy, not distraction. Here’s why it matters.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-august-29-2025/Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-august-29-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from August 29, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/how-47-could-improve/Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/how-47-could-improve/Honest constructive feedback for the 47th president, written without malice.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-august-22-2025/Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-august-22-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from August 22, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/why-i-am-looking-at-albania/Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/why-i-am-looking-at-albania/I’m chasing a better use of my remaining time.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/proud-to-be-woke/Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/proud-to-be-woke/If caring about people makes me woke, then I’ll wear the word like a medal.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/no-kings-a-nation-speaks/Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/no-kings-a-nation-speaks/A nation without kings: why Americans reject authoritarianism.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/prh-digest-for-mid-june-2025/Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/prh-digest-for-mid-june-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from mid-June 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/stand-tall-for-democracy/Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/stand-tall-for-democracy/Why standing up for democratic values matters now more than ever.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-may-23-2025/Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-may-23-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from May 23, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/a-nation-poised-for-reckoning-or-renewal/Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/a-nation-poised-for-reckoning-or-renewal/America at the crossroads: reckoning with corruption or renewing democratic values.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-may-16-2025/Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-may-16-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from May 16, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-virtue-of-temperance/Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-virtue-of-temperance/The lost virtue of temperance: why restraint matters more in an age of excess.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-virtue-of-temperance-holding-the-line-when-everything-pulls-you-off-it/Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-virtue-of-temperance-holding-the-line-when-everything-pulls-you-off-it/Holding the line when everything pulls you off it: the virtue of temperance.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-may-9-2025/Fri, 09 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-may-9-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from May 9, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/when-justice-bends-power-privilege-and-the-price-of-fairness/Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/when-justice-bends-power-privilege-and-the-price-of-fairness/When justice bends under power and privilege, society pays the hidden price.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/the-price-of-silence-in-a-corrupt-nation/Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/the-price-of-silence-in-a-corrupt-nation/On kleptocracy, corruption, and the cost of staying silent in a failing system.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-april-25-2025/Fri, 25 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/weekly-digest-for-april-25-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from April 25, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/we-are-the-ancestors-of-what-follows/Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/we-are-the-ancestors-of-what-follows/We are not history’s endpoint—we are the ancestors of what comes next.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/to-save-a-world-together/Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/to-save-a-world-together/What the Pale 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