This week, recent events have inspired me to think about the wide, wide world on a smaller scale.

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This week, on the current round of redistricting sweeping through Missouri.

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Sources

[1] “On Democracy,” Wednesday Blog 5.39.

[2] “We, Irish Americans,” Wednesday Blog 6.10.

[3] “On Servant Leadership,” Wednesday Blog 6.15.

[4] “Freedom from Fear,” Wednesday Blog 2.6; “Embodied Patriotism,” Wednesday Blog 6.26.

[5] “Governor Kehoe announces special session on congressional redistricting and initiative petition reform,” Office of the Governor of the State of Missouri, 29 August 2025.

[6] “A Scary Time For Chicago | Trump Gets FOMO Over China's Military Parade | Donald's Life Lessons,” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (3 September 2025), YouTube.

[7] “A Defense of Humanism in a Time of War,” Wednesday Blog 6.24.

This week, comparing the benefits of pleasure with the rewards of good work.

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Sources:

• Photo: © Juan Valentín CC BY-NC 4.0 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/427040191. No modifications made. Available under public license. Image slightly cropped length-wise for podcast episode art.
• [1] André Thevet, Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, (Antwerp, 1558), 4v ; Aristotle, Situations and Names of Winds 973b, 12–13.
• [2] Homer, Odyssey 9.106–110, trans. Robert Fagles, (Penguin, 1996), 214.
• [3] Homer, Odyssey 9.110–117, trans. Fagles, 214.
• [4] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a.
• [5] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1118a, 8.