The Emergent Self

Questioning what we're told it means to be human

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Thinking & Disagreement

Critical thinking and the craft of disagreeing well. Every disagreement holds more than two paths.

A hiker stands alone on a misty hilltop at dawn while faint, ghostly figures along the path below help others climb, steady a ladder, open a gate, and point the way

Nobody Is Self-Made

The phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” began as a joke. Why nobody is truly self-made, and what privilege and intersectionality reveal about success.