Ever since the dawn of history, some go-to techniques have wormed themselves into mankind’s habits, despite having no business being there. That clichéd opening for … Read More ›
Author: Noah Diekemper
Noah Diekemper studied Latin and Mathematics at Hillsdale College. He contributed to Goodtruebeautiful.net, motivated as always by a desire to preserve and share knowledge. Friday nights you can find him swing dancing.
“Friends are just strangers you haven’t alienated yet.” If someone said this to you, you probably wouldn’t think that he had decided to refer to … Read More ›
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humanity consumes resources, but resources are finite. Therefore, we are destined to one day run out of … Read More ›
At heart, fiction is a made-up story. These stories draw on the real world for context, structures, settings, and even characters, however. More often than … Read More ›
The plays of William Shakespeare have given our language turns of phrase we all know: “full circle,” (King Lear) “break the ice,” (Taming of the … Read More ›
How do we cope with wanting to remember more than we think we can? The art of “the memory technique” (an elegant legacy from a … Read More ›
The massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has incited vigorous debate about the problem of gun crime, in schools especially. Lawmakers and citizens have … Read More ›
We have been told, for more than a year now, that we must “RESIST” the “authoritarian” “far-right” advances of “literally Hitler” President Donald Trump. Now … Read More ›
The infamous Senate Non-Confirmation trial of Constitutional scholar and Justice Robert Bork enjoys, or suffers, or at any rate is doomed to a virile afterlife … Read More ›