When Words Aren’t Enough

On the ancient need to sing, the science that explains it, and the folly of pretending perfection can replace sincerity.

If you believe in free speech, here’s the bad news: it isn’t actually free. It costs $5 a month. That’s less than the latte you complain about, less than the Netflix shows you’ll never watch, and far cheaper than your last regrettable bar tab.

For that, you get three essays a week, open comments, and the satisfaction of knowing you’re funding uncensored writing in a world addicted to censorship. Everyone says, “It’s just the price of a cup of coffee.” Fine.

But here’s the pitch: give me your coffee money and I’ll hand you something stronger—essays with bite, arguments with teeth, and the freedom to say what others won’t.

Subscribe today. Because silence is free—and it’s worth exactly what you paid for it.

(“Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Nietzsche)

Call it delusion if you must, but it is our oldest truth: that words alone are too small for the cargo of feeling. The human creature has always suspected that plain speech cannot bear the full voltage of emotion — that the heart’s…