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Not Just an Aphorism: Hard Work Always Does Pay Off

Itto Outini

Nov 236 min read

Not Just an Aphorism: Hard Work Always Does Pay Off

Itto calls on her fellow Americans to remember what they used to know about hard work, not so very long ago.

Mekiya Outini

Nov 105 min read

So You Want to Change the World?

They told you to "Get involved." What did they really mean?

Is He Racist? My Take on the Most Important Film of the Year

Itto Outini

Oct 204 min read

Is He Racist? My Take on the Most Important Film of the Year

Is Matt Walsh racist? Read Itto's film review to find out.

Do We Really Have to Go with the Flow? – The Reality Behind Remittances

Itto Outini

Sep 128 min read

Do We Really Have to Go with the Flow? – The Reality Behind Remittances

Itto Outini analyzes cultural attitudes and socioeconomic trends governing the international flow of remittances.

To Be or Not to Be Is NOT the Question: Why We Need the Meritocracy

Itto Outini

Mar 104 min read

To Be or Not to Be Is NOT the Question: Why We Need the Meritocracy

Were you hired to do? Or were you hired to be? Itto Outini explores why it matters and why we can't give up on meritocracy.

Do I Know You?: A Rant about Labels and the Conflicts They Feed

Richard Vogel

Feb 115 min read

Do I Know You?: A Rant about Labels and the Conflicts They Feed

"Prejudice happens when we start to believe that we know each other simply because we know each other’s labels."

A Good Olfaction Romance: Noses, Telegraphs, Christian Virtue, and Uncanny Vice in Ella Cheever Thayer’s Wired Love

Mekiya Outini

Jan 2111 min read

A Good Olfaction Romance: Noses, Telegraphs, Christian Virtue, and Uncanny Vice in Ella Cheever Thayer’s Wired Love

Noses remind us of all that the Puritans hoped to repress, and that the telegraph promised to replace.

Hope, However Chill the Land and Sore the Storm

The Outinis

Oct 15, 20238 min read

Hope, However Chill the Land and Sore the Storm

Itto and Mekiya Outini examine the phenomenon of hope, the selection pressures that produced it, and the evolutionary niche it fills.

Itto Outini

Sep 18, 20238 min read

The Witches Within

A born skeptic, Itto Outini was nonetheless swayed by the power of witchcraft—but not in the way that the witches intended.

The Outinis

Aug 24, 202311 min read

ChatGPT is Here, and We are Not Afraid

"Why," ask the Outinis, "are so many creatives so afraid of getting displaced by a technology that’s not, in fact, capable of creativity?"

Mekiya Outini

Jul 24, 202313 min read

No News is Good News

Mekiya Outini seeks better ways to engage with the news in the 21st-century's post-truth media landscape.

The Outinis

Jun 26, 20236 min read

Banking on a Myth

In this co-authored commentary, the Outinis ask, "If we're going to let ideas possess us, shouldn't we ask them what they mean to do?"

Mekiya Outini

Apr 20, 202312 min read

It Just Gets Butter and Butter

A bad film prompts Mekiya to reflect on the relationship between nostalgia, creativity, imagination, accommodations, dinosaurs, and butter.

Mekiya Outini

Mar 6, 20237 min read

Left to My Own Devices

Mekiya faces up to the vexing reality that Itto is enamored with Siri, Alexa, and Google Home, whose appeal continues to elude him.

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