Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

culture

  • The assumed division of rivals is treated as impenetrable and impossible to resolve. But it is often only a failure of imagination.

  • Our culture’s myths around work, responsibility and purpose leave us fragile. We need to build up the skill of quitting better.

  • The key to the parable is the chasm: the one between God and wealth: and how we are all called to break it apart.

  • Drew isn’t a terribly common name. So how crazy is it that I ran into two other people named Drew in 24 hours?

  • Saving Time

    Returning to Standard Time brings disruption. How much disruption it brings, however, is debatable. And we do debate. Arguing over that one hour—where it goes, when to take it, how to plan it—is a cultural phenomenon we experience twice a year, every year. Scientists have even studied the effects of shifting in and out of…

  • Is the United States the first rich failed state? In a challenging new essay on Eudaimonia & Co., Umair Haque makes the case that we are. And we aren’t nearly as concerned with this as we should be. Umair Haque begins his essay by naming your skepticism. And it’s warranted. The reader has just read…