CHARIS · No. 006
Voltaire never said it
The internet's favorite defence of free speech is a biographer's summary of Voltaire — and her own sentence says so.
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Think in ink.
Charisma with a bibliography: rhetoric, deep reading, and the commonplace method — every idea with its page number and its pencil marks.
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MATH · No. 004
eunoia
The word for a speaker's goodwill toward the audience — and what the internet's favorite gloss gets wrong about Aristotle.
INK · No. 003
The Forgetting Machine
Franklin's Spectator drill — and why the wait between the copy and the rebuild is where writing actually gets learned.
The Fair Copy
One essay, every Thursday — then one passage, one word, one question.