In 1922, an unknown, struggling writer named Ernest Hemingway was covering events in Switzerland when he met an editor interested in publishing his work. At last, he thought, his big break had arrived. His wife, Hadley, packed up all the writing Hemingway had accumulated in their tiny, unheated Paris apartment—manuscripts, short stories, poetry, an unfinished […]

As we work and achieve, we pile up titles and money. We accumulate assets and influence. We build a life, as they say. And a life is made up of things: Our job. Our house. Our car. Our relationships. Our reputation. Looking around at what we possess, what we’ve poured so much sweat and blood […]

They can break the rules. They can bury you in paperwork. They can lie. They can abuse their power. They can hurt people. They can do all this impunity. It’s not just that they can. It’s that they almost certainly will. Injustice is not an aberration in this world, it’s practically the norm. Anyone who […]

The word “justice” is now often associated with courts, lawsuits, prosecutors and defenders, judges and juries.. We debate the meaning of justice, the functioning of the legal system, its complexities, its flaws, ambiguities, limitations, and inconsistencies. We get bombarded by the news cycle of stories of injustice, verdicts which were fair or unfair, and people […]