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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Meditations Session 4.2: On Obstacles
Meditations Session 4: Becoming a Truth Extremist
Caitlin Clark on Practicing Stoic Virtues
Meditations Session 3: Wherever You Go, There You Are
Meditations Session 2: The Joy of Missing Out
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
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
You Can’t Make Meaning By Hating Others
Mindset Shifts U Begins This Month