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The Human Fire

Chad Smith

A weekly newsletter providing oxygen, fuel, and heat to spark the human spirit. Essays covering the pillars of culture: business, education, faith, and the public sphere. Notes curating the human disciplines for human excellence in a digital age.

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The Human Fire 2.16 - The Value of Structures

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I've had that old Joni Mitchell line singing in my head for several days now:

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone"

Watching the roads in western North Carolina was...

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The Human Fire 2.15 - The Value of Stories

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I spent Friday in downtown Boston with my wife, son, and a group of homeschoolers exploring the famed "Freedom Trail" and debating the tea tax that provoked the "Boston Tea Party" before revolution broke out in the c...

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The Human Fire 2.14 - The Value of Stuff

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When I was a poor graduate student - is there any other kind of graduate student? - I lived in a neighborhood of Boston delightfully called "the student ghetto." Every September 1st, the apartment leases changed ove...

2 years ago
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The Human Fire 2.13 - The Value of Knowledge

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If I've had an intellectual obsession in my life, it's been with knowledge. Or rather, put precisely, with how we know what we know. That is a fundamental question in the history of philosophy, all the way from Plato's...

2 years ago

The Human Fire 2.12 - The Value of People

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One of the stranger trends that's made the rounds in our digital life has been that of "cancel culture." Truthfully, I'm not a fan. I don't think people are something you cancel like they're an unwant...

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