Archive - Five O'Clock with Theral Timpson

Nightly Under Night's Underside . . .

Nightly under night’s underside

Aug 3 •

July 2025

Journal Entry Fourteen Sixty Four Dash O Five Six

Setting: A narrow path winding up into golden hills above San Jose speckled with late-summer scrub.

Jul 18 •

The Church of Assumption

Because they said we must be paired—two by two, like scared animals before the great ark of resplendent joy—but I stood alone at the threshold,not…

Jul 11 •

June 2025

I Am Here. Where Are You?

Out under the summer stars,

Jun 27 •

Haunted by Each Other?

A back patio at dusk. Aaron:You keep saying conservatives use logic as well as progressives. But I don’t see it. Conservatives are the continual…

Jun 20 •

Because I Could Not Stop for Her, Jane Austen Kindly Stopped for Me

The carriage was waiting when I arrived—black, elegant, without ostentation. Excuse the excessively showy pun right out the gate.

Jun 13 •

On the Wine Trail Asking What's a Social Construction?

The hills of Santa Ynez rolled in steep, gold-dusted waves around the two middle-aged men, one with a well kept beard, the other with a well kept…

Jun 6 •

May 2025

April 2025

The Case for Civilization (and Silicone Spatulas)

A domestic philosophical dispatch from the global frontlines of civilization, Part 1

Apr 25 •

The Contract of Reason

A dialogue at Harvard Kaufman (pouring coffee):Did you read the piece in The Atlantic, Am I Still Allowed to Tell the Truth in My Class? Great title…

Apr 18 •

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