UNCOMMON WISDOM

by Omar Khan

Jul 26, 2022
11 min

Sri Lanka Realities and Global Alarmism

Avalanche of Non-News: The Morning Raid I had been at pains to point out to international observers that if former President Gotabaya...

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Apr 6, 2022
6 min

Moving on: Closer to the Heart of Healing

Inspired by the insights of Rector Buddy Stallings, St. Bartholomew’s Church, New York Meditation on the challenges facing Sri Lanka -...

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May 30, 2021
3 min

Orwell vs. Huxley

Misinformation vs Self-Imposed Blinkers We saw Orwell in America at the 59th Street Theaters in New York some time back. Orwell actually...

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May 26, 2021
4 min

Breaking the Ego Barrier

Success will emerge upon releasing the grip of the ego When physicist and entrepreneur Lester Levenson suffered a second heart attack,...

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May 8, 2021
9 min

Living and Loving with Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia, whose name flamboyantly intoned, sounds almost like an operatic aria, became associated with the word “love” as he...

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Nov 10, 2020
3 min

Joy and Smelly Orthodoxies

The great novelist, essayist, and courageous truth-teller, George Orwell wrote about Charles Dickens, “He is laughing, with a touch of...

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Aug 30, 2020
7 min

Time To Fight That War Again

I urge you to read this yes, and then to find a quiet 100 minutes to revel in and savor this remarkable movie-making tour-de-force:...

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Jul 20, 2020
10 min

Beyond Distraction

Imagine the tentacles of panic closing in on you, as you surrender in a session that is “gadget free” your technological “life-line” of...

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Jul 4, 2020
6 min

Thomas Paine and the Greatness of “Uncommon Sense”

These seem squalid and challenging times for the United States as I write on July 4th weekend: pandemic woes, rioting and social...

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Jun 22, 2020
7 min

An Ode to Wit

One of the most morbid achievements of popular culture is the imposition of a tedious “sameness” upon everyone. It seems we have become...

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Jun 14, 2020
9 min

How to Admire Someone

There is a pernicious virus afoot, where every great personality has to be undermined because they were a product of their times, or were...

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Jun 8, 2020
6 min

Will You Join in Our Crusade?

Victor Hugo’s monumental tale of an ex-prison convict, Jean Valjean, who metamorphoses into a saint, through the redemptive, loving...

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Jun 1, 2020
5 min

Peeping for Pepys

Life in a plague is not something we have much experience with (thankfully!). The great diarist Samuel Pepys (pronounced “Peeps”),...

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May 24, 2020
4 min

Suffering Where Is Thy Sting?

Aldous Huxley, taking us on a tour of the wisdom literature of the world, finding uncanny parallels in essential insights, despite...

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May 9, 2020
4 min

Ravishing Lines

From notable people who inspire and illuminate to ravishing lines written or spoken that provoke and evoke and are worth being...

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Apr 25, 2020
4 min

The Admirable Many Continued

So, another week, much to be experienced, all to be welcomed, some to be savored. Things for chagrin, things for wonder. An era ending,...

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Apr 19, 2020
4 min

Those Admirable Many

The vegetable and fruit truck stopped by our building, a glorious treat, allowing us to inhale some air, and be caressed by some...

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Apr 10, 2020
4 min

To Easter and Beyond

We are moving from Passover in one tradition and on from Good Friday to Easter in another. In any and all traditions, we are remaking,...

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Apr 4, 2020
3 min

A Forgotten Spring: Let's Remember!

Roger Cohen writes: "The planet has gone quiet, so quiet you can almost hear it whirling around the sun, feel its smallness, picture for...

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Mar 29, 2020
2 min

Shakespeare and Statistics

Professor Emma Smith of Oxford delightfully reminds us, in this period of social distancing, lockdowns or outright curfews, that truly...

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