Awareness of your mindset is the portal to change
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How to Read The Screwtape Letters Without Literal Demons
Listening past the mental noise.
This is a supplement to Session 1 of The Screwtape Letters.
Exercises in Attention: A Companion to The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters Practice Guide
This page will gather the practical exercises that accompany my eight-session Substack course on The Screwtape Letters. Each exercise is meant to help you notice, in ordinary life, the movements of atte...
The Screwtape Letters, Session 1: Halfway to the Door
How attention escapes reality
I’ve lost count of the number of times the simple wisdom in Letter 1 has assisted me, and at the same time, the number of times I have forgotten Lewis’s core idea. Am I an especially slow learner? We will see...
The Indestructible Aspiration Toward Freedom
Human freedom stands above everything. There is no end in the world for the sake of which it is permissible to sacrifice human freedom.— Vasily Grossman, Everything Flows
Can the transformation of America into a ‘State without freedom’ b...
Thomas Paine’s Message for America at 250
According to a late 2025 Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports poll, “58 percent of likely voters aged 18 to 39 support government-run grocery stores in every town in America.” Fifty-one percent of younger likely voters “say they would like...
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Educator and the author of The Inner-Work of Leadership; contributing writer at the American Institute for Economic Research and the Foundation for Economic Education. Mindset Shifts U is a book study feature of his Substack, Mindset Shifts.
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