Is Daoism Chinese?
March 10th, 2018 | by msalt
Underlying many of the fierce arguments about whether Westerners are appropriating Daoism is a basic question: is Daoism Chinese? If [&hellip
March 10th, 2018 | by msalt
Underlying many of the fierce arguments about whether Westerners are appropriating Daoism is a basic question: is Daoism Chinese? If [&hellip
January 19th, 2018 | by msalt
The Netflix series “The Crown” offers a very interesting bit of applied Daoism, spread across three episodes in Season 1. [&hellip
April 20th, 2016 | by msalt
I just ran across a classic post at Maria Popova’s always worthwhile BrainPickings that illuminates the connection between martial arts [&hellip
January 19th, 2016 | by msalt
A dozen or so heavily armed right-wing extremists seize a government facility. Naturally, the police respond with a massive display [&hellip
October 23rd, 2015 | by msalt
Einstein was wrong. As insightful as he was about the nature of the universe, the most famous Western genius since [&hellip
April 21st, 2014 | by msalt
I’ve long had a pet theory that Malcolm Gladwell is a closet Daoist. If you look at his big books, [&hellip
March 29th, 2014 | by msalt
Over at Quartz, Max Nisen has a very interesting article on the unusual — and very successful — culture at [&hellip
July 15th, 2013 | by msalt
NOTE: This post is based on my misreading of an ambiguous New York Times article, as Scott Barnwell notes in [&hellip
July 13th, 2013 | by msalt
Continuing this series about a great blue song in its various incarnations. The first example was an unreleased 1968 Rolling [&hellip
May 6th, 2013 | by msalt
I’m a huge fan of football coach Chip Kelly, who left just his first-ever head coaching job (for the University [&hellip