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Sunday Letters

Welcome to the Sunday Letters archive. Here you'll find all editions of the newsletter from 2015. Sunday Letters is a conversation I'm having with myself. It attempts to address the psychology and philosophy of living the good life in the face of rapid technological chnage. It is the pursuit of an answer to a question. Thanks for being here.

Bandura on Selective Moral Disengagement

17th May 2025 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Bandura Selective Moral Disengagement Sunday Letters

As I observe this world of people, it seems that moral disengagement is active everywhere, not least among politicians and corporate leaders. In the workplace, for example, many choose to ignore immoral and unethical practices. We put our heads down, blinkers on, and just get on with the work when we know very well that […]

Sunday Letters: Welcome Back

11th May 2025 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Sunday Letters Is Home

I wrote to you earlier this week on Substack with the news that Sunday Letters was making its way home to this website. This current issue is, in fact, the first time that Sunday Letters reaches your inbox directly from the backend of this self-hosted WordPress site. Before now, I relied on third-party services such […]

Annie Dillard on Time, Structure, Coffee, & Learning A Trade

4th May 2025 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Image of Annie Dillard

Welcome to the return of Sunday Letters, the weekly newsletter on life, work, and the pursuit of happiness. This week, I’m reaching back into the archive and a short piece I wrote several years ago after reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard. For today’s issue, I have taken a few hours to run an […]

Albert Einstein on The Need For A Socialist Economy

2nd May 2025 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Albert Einstein Sunday Letters

In this morning’s Sunday Letters, I’m republishing in full, Einstein’s 1949 essay “Why Socialism?” When we consider the extent of the global environmental crisis, the new cold war between the US and Russia on one front and China

The Problem With Society

3rd December 2023 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Here's the problem

As concisely as possible, this is the most significant contributing factor to the problem with society. It is the fundamental risk to the survival of our species. I’m not optimistic in the short term, but in say one thousand years if humans are still around, I am, in fact, optimistic. I’d like to think that […]

Intelligence: You Either Have It, Or You Don’t

27th November 2023 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

Intelligence you either have it or you dont

Intelligence, whatever way we wish to discuss it, is a highly-regarded faculty, but it’s problematic. Researchers consider the term intelligence to be too broad to be helpful in understanding human behaviour and personality. The word simply does not allow us to discuss the depth and breadth of human abilities–or indeed their growth and development–in any meaningful way. But that doesn’t stop people from using it to pigeonhole other people

Less Is More?

26th April 2023 by Larry G. Maguire Leave a Comment

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