Sitemap - 2024 - Mindset Shifts—Essays by Barry Brownstein

The Road to Serfdom, Session 3: There is No Common Good

How Roddie Edmonds Became a Righteous Among the Nations

The Road to Serfdom, Session 2: Blind to the Miracles in Front of Us

Principles are the Antidote to Politics

The Road to Serfdom, Session 1: The Last Stand on Earth

The Dangerous Reinterpretation of Freedom

It's What You Do Next that Counts

Hayek On Why People Are Losing Their Minds

Has America Lost Its Creed?

Cherish the Republic, Not Donald Trump

Blind Spots: Questioning Our Assumptions is Hard

Orwell Exposed the Cowardice of Journalists

Peace, Liberty and Prosperity Walk Together

How to Repurpose Your Discomfort

The Tyranny of Community Standards

Liberty Depends on Our Defense of Free Speech

People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others

Why Would People Vote for Empty Supermarket Shelves?

Coming to Mindset Shift U This Fall: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Seneca’s “On Anger”

On Altering Your Gaze

Learning All the Time

Bonds That Make Us Free, Session 7: Forgiveness is the Path to Freedom

Taking Back Our Power of Attention

Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon Might Be the Greatest Advertisements for Capitalism Ever Written

Bonds That Make Us Free, Session 6: Every Backslide is an Opportunity to Learn

On Choosing What Matters

Why Venezuela Took the Road to Serfdom

Bonds That Make Us Free, Session 5: Blame is the Monster

How The Study of Timeless Ideas Can Prevent the Worst

California's Maoist Law Will Destroy Families

Bonds That Make Us Free Session 4: First, There is a Mountain

What Happens When an MBA Student Raised in Communist China Reads Hayek

Single Bullet Theory

You Can’t Make Meaning By Hating Others

Bonds That Make Us Free, Session 3: What To Do When You Are Stuck

Feelings Lie: How Not to Get Fooled

Danger Ahead: Why Antisemitism Is Likely to Grow

Bonds That Make Us Free Session 2A: Reality Isn't Fragmented

A People Without Purpose Will Soon Lose Their Freedom

Bonds That Make Us Free Session 2: Without You, There Is No Me

Bonds That Make Us Free Session 1: The AI Version

To Defeat Health Tyrants, Eat Real Food

Bonds That Make Us Free Session 1: Our Humanity is on the Line

Lincoln’s 1838 Warning: The Threat to Liberty Comes From Inside the House

Bonds That Make Us Free Session 0: Fully Informed

Principles, Not Parties, Must Guide Our Votes

The Antidote to Mental Enslavement

The Future of Liberty

Adam Smith and Terry Warner on Self-Deception

"Show Me the Man and I’ll Show You the Crime" vs. The Rule of Law

Are We Addicted to Our Misery?

Are You a Servant of Tyranny or Liberty?

Discovering What Life Expects of You

Coming to Mindset Shifts U this Summer and Fall

We Are So Cared For, We Are So Loved

Man’s Search for Meaning Session 4: A Spotless Mind Doesn’t Lead to Freedom

Two Minutes of Jew Hate

Illiberal Youth Threaten Freedom

Man’s Search for Meaning Session 3: Frankl’s Four Prescriptions

An Untrained Mind is an Anti-Meaning Making Machine

Man’s Search for Meaning Session 2: What Does Life Expect of Me?

Responsibility Is the Antidote to the Poverty Mindset

We Tell Our Children: Don't Talk to Strangers, but What to Do About the Strangers Paid to Talk to Our Children?

Man's Search for Meaning Session 1: What Stops Us From Taking Responsibility

Viktor Frankl on Why There is No Collective Guilt

Complaining Makes Us Miserable

When Euthanasia Becomes Murder

Making Meaning Is the Antidote to Troubled Feelings

Without Free Speech, All Speech Becomes Government Speech

What Comes Next at Mindset Shifts U?

Meditations Session 10: Know that in Time Those Things Toward Which We Move Come to Be

Marcus's Forgiveness Path

To Remain Free, Make the Ordinary Meaningful

Meditations Session 9: Keep Practicing

When You’re Feeling Like Sisyphus, the Stoics Have the Antidote

Meditations Session 8: All This Has Happened Before

Sweet are The Uses of Adversity

When We Turn on the Light, Darkness Vanishes

Meditations Session 7: Overcoming “Functional Atheism”

Why Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters

Meditations Session 6: Allowing Our Faulty Code to be Rewritten

Argentina's Cautionary Tale for America

America’s DEI Commissars Threaten Freedom

Meditations Session 5: If You Find Yourself in a Hole, Stop Digging

The Lab and the Field

Meditations Session 4.2: On Obstacles

Meditations Session 4: Becoming a Truth Extremist

Caitlin Clark on Practicing Stoic Virtues

On Being Rounded Up

Meditations Session 3: Wherever You Go, There You Are

Are Our Grievances Fantasies?

Meditations Session 2: The Joy of Missing Out

Mindset Shifts U—All Sessions

We Find Purpose in the Important, not the Urgent

Meditations Session 1.2: Discovering Reality in Real-Time

Meditations Session 1: See that You Don’t Want to Stop It

Breaking Love's Code

Our Study of Aurelius's Meditations Begins on Saturday

Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast

3 Warning Signs Your Life is a Sitcom About Nothing

On Showing Up

How Not to Go to Seed in 2024

You Can’t Make Meaning By Hating Others

Mindset Shifts U Begins This Month

Are You Waiting for a Lollipop?

How Not to Be a Jerk in 2024