Matthew B. Crawford

Shop Class as Soulcraft

Matthew B. Crawford

Crawford has a doctorate in political philosophy, took a think tank job, lasted five months, and quit to open a motorcycle repair shop. His argument is that we’ve built an economy that separates thinking from doing and calls that progress,…

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

Matthew B. Crawford

Matthew Crawford devotes Why We Drive to an anonymous couple he sees running down a wooded trail, pretending they’re riding motorcycles, making vrooming noises and playfully leaping over roots. It’s this eye for the small but uniquely human details that…