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How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872 – The Marginalian
In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) ran for President, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate. Papers declared h…
The Countercultural Sanity of the Irrational: Pioneering Psychiatrist Otto Rank on the Blind Spots of Reason – The Marginalian
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, decl…
How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas Tree – The Marginalian
Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because (in the immortal words of John Muir) “when we try to pick out anything by itself, …
Something in You Hungers for Clarity: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Writing and the Power of Words to Remake the World – The Marginalian
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on,” Mary Shelley wrote in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars tha…
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Fable about Cherishing the Particular – The Marginalian
The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as…
How to Live a Miraculous Life: Brian Doyle on Love, Humility, and the Quiet Grace of the Possible – The Marginalian
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful i…
There’s a Ghost in the Garden: A Subtle and Soulful Illustrated Fable about Memory and Mystery – The Marginalian
One of the things no one tells us as we grow up is that we will be living in a world rife with ghosts — all of our disappointed hopes and our outgrown dreams, all the abandoned novels and unp…
The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable about the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself – The Marginalian
“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf rasped in the only surviving recording of her voice — a love letter to language as an instrument of thought and a medium of being. …
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on the Antidote to Self-Righteousness and Our Best Hope for Humanity – The Marginalian
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-r…