# Humanities in Revolt High school dropout turned college professor, liberating the humanities from the ivory tower--with philosophical, ethical, and spiritual insights to enrich everyday life and inspire personal and social transformation Page: Feed: --- ## [Confucius Didn't Say That...](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/confucius-didnt-say-that-01f) _2026-08-04 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Why We Shouldn't Let Quotes Think and Speak for Us ## [Biophilia or Carnage? The Choice We Make at Every Meal](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/biophilia-or-carnage-the-choice-we) _2026-07-25 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Bringing Our Diets into Harmony with Our Deepest Convictions ## [Love Them or Eat Them? The Environmental and Health Case for Veganism](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/love-them-or-eat-them-the-environmental) _2026-07-19 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Part I: How Veganism Affirms Our Love of Animals, the Planet, and Ourselves ## [The Joy in Not Taking the Photo](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/the-joy-in-not-taking-the-photo-7cd) _2026-06-25 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ On Presence and the Aliveness We Cannot Capture ## [The Humanities Against Despair: Five Talks for an Uncertain Age](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/the-humanities-against-despair-five) _2026-06-20 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Einstein, Mister Rogers, dystopian futures, and the art of living—five free talks across Florida, online and in person. ## [Going to the Movies... with the Pentagon](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/going-to-the-movies-with-the-pentagon) _2026-05-25 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ The Cinematic Abstraction of Warfare in the United States ## [Woman-made: Finding Beauty and Agency in Childbirth](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/woman-made-finding-beauty-and-agency) _2026-05-10 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Recognizing the Marginalized Labor Underlying Mother's Day ## [Returning to The Jungle: Child Labor and the Erosion of Hard-Won Protections](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/returning-to-the-jungle-child-labor) _2026-05-01 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Looking at the Rollback of Child Labor Protections through the Lens of Lewis Hine and Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" ## [Bargain with Death or Live Deliberately?](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/bargain-with-death-or-live-deliberately) _2026-04-22 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ An Interactive Thought Experiment on the Use—and Misuse—of Time ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/H9a3llqstLvZ) _2026-04-22 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Why Is Work So Hard? Augustine and Marx Respond](https://jeffreynall.substack.com/p/why-is-work-so-hard-augustine-and) _2026-04-15 · Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D._ Augustine and Karl Marx on Labor and its Connection to Punishment, Oppression, and Freedom