Mindset Shifts—Essays by Barry Brownstein

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November 2025

Politics Is Destroying Civil Society—But Gratitude Can Save Us
Grace is unearned. Do we not receive grace every day?
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Economics of Gratitude: What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
Demanding something for nothing misunderstands both economics and human nature.
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Emerson, Session 2: The Triumph of Principles
We trust ourselves because our true Self connects to something infinite and trustworthy.​
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Emerson, Session 1, Part 2: A Practical Faith
This recognition is not insulting, instead, it reveals a greater agency—that we participate in something infinite, something beyond the tedious…
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Emerson, Session 1: Ordinary Moments: Lessons from The Over-Soul
Emerson, like Aurelius, was a practical philosopher questioning the internal barriers to a life well lived.
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On Reading and Applying Emerson
The Over-Soul is the central, unified, and divine Mind that is the source of all life and connects every living thing.
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Leonard Read, Session 3: Individual Integrity as the Foundation of Liberty
Working on our own moral development does change the world.
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Mao's Children: How Revolutionary Passions Are Still Warping Young Minds
The real battle for liberty is taking place daily in the trenches of our own minds.
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Leonard Read, Session 2: Self-Mastery, Not Reforming Others
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
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October 2025

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