A superlative is a fraction whose denominator has been quietly rubbed out. On rank, relative goods, and the difference between a position one can forfeit and a possession one cannot.
A standing work of reference maintained by the Foundation and kept apart from the articles. Six eras, 48 schools, and 123 thinkers, each entered with dates, canonical works, a portrait, and a compact statement of the argument for which the thinker is read.
The guide holds 123 entries, and a reader who begins at the beginning rarely reaches the end. Turn a card instead, and read whoever it gives you.
The deck is cut and shuffled.
Submissions
The Foundation is not a personal journal. It publishes work by anyone capable of holding an argument steady for two thousand words, and it reads everything that arrives. Articles, review pieces, and research notes may be sent to teamthinkersfoundation@gmail.com.
Nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, 1767
