In Defence of Jenna Levin and Passionate Educators — It takes tremendous amounts of creativity to report one’s findings along with one’s own experiences and still manage to emerge sounding credible. As an educator, I know this all too well. …

Making Sense of Being Human in the Modern World — At times I complain about the over-labelling and over-categorization that comes with talking about the self. There are the functional ones such as the “shadow”, “experiencing”, and “remembering” self, among others that I will mention below. …

Reflections After Reading “The Blank Slate” by Steven Pinker — The debate over nature versus nurture is a noteworthy thing to think about during these truly distressing times. As a citizen of three different countries on three different continents, I’ve mostly been fascinated by its relationship with culture, language, and identity. For instance, one can identify more with another culture…

Reflections After Reading “Kitchen Confidential” — I’m a big fan of Anthony Bourdain. Not only for his knack for cooking and his keen observation of human nature — all of which combine food with great storytelling — but we have some things in common; our love of travel, talking to strangers, experimenting in the kitchen, and…

Philosophy Books — In less than 200 pages Kafka recounts the story of a man named Josef K. — a respectable banker charged with a crime never revealed to him, not even by the uniformed officers who brazenly barged into his room to arrest him. The incident follows K. on a chase to…

Philosophy Books — “The Stranger” is perhaps one of the first books that come to mind when we think of Camus. After all, it is a classic in literature and has received great praise and votes of approval in the general public as well as among my peers and fellow readers. The book…

Book Musings — I get the impression that a lot was lost in the translation of Sartre‘s original work to the creation of this book. It is especially obvious when Sartre starts expanding on the peculiarity of day-to-day things and the way we humans measure or put names on material objects surrounding us…