Literature & Poetry
POEM: Every Howling Thing
As jackals approach a town, the townspeople must flee before nightfall. They all run except for a deaf girl, mourning her dead rabbit.
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Philosophy & Ethics
Improving the Self through Virtue Ethics
This essay is about the applications of virtue ethics - a normative theory of ethics - in everyday life. Normative ethics, virtue ethics, and its applications to self-improvement are discussed.
Culture & Identity
Six Pieces by GUSKY
A series of evocative pieces by the internationally acclaimed American artist, Gusky.
Culture & Identity
Stillness Between Pages
A reflection on daily reading
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Does God cause the grass to grow?
Is it truly God that causes the grass to grow? Is not the growth of such grass fully explained by science? If matter provides a sufficient explanation, how can God be regarded as the cause?
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Black Box
A short fiction piece about a girl, a girl, a hallway, a kitchen, and perhaps another glass of wine.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: crab apple
A poem about crab apples and self-acceptance, when who you are doesn’t seem to be ‘enough’ in someone else’s eyes.
Culture & Identity
The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented
As humans, we are drawn towards what is familiar and safe; we desperately claw at comfort and reject discomfort. But what happens to us when we are completely out of our element?
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Love, fairness and the problem of value
This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
That Fairness is a Quality of Love
Fairness is the quality of love that does not subjectify or objectify but enfolds as the father did his prodigal son. In it is the love that radiates and the love that soothes, the love that comes from the ocean and the sun