Archive - Sustainable Catalyst

In Memory of David Gergen (May 9, 1942 – July 10, 2025)

From Silence to Solidarity: Our Obligation to Name Injustice

Jul 12, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Legal Theater, Moral Collapse

What courtroom comedies and supernatural thrillers reveal about ambition, identity, and the cost of winning.

Jul 7, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Loyalty Without Lies

Why Wick, Tony, and Donnie Loved Animals More Than People

Jul 4, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Blood, Ink, and Imagination: How Mary Wollstonecraft Shaped Mary Shelley’s Mind

A mother who died in childbirth. A daughter who reimagined life itself. And the radical legacy that binds them.

Jul 3, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Connected vs. Disconnected Leadership: Draper, Snow, and the Cost of Hiding

One leads through mystique. The other through trust. Only one survives the winter.

Jul 2, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Burning, Drowning, Falling: Hedda, Emma, and Anna on the Edge of the World

What three tragic heroines—Gabler, Bovary, and Karenina—reveal about desire, defiance, and the fatal cost of wanting more

Jul 1, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

June 2025

The Myth of the Do-Over

Lessons from Peggy Sue Got Married and The Heavenly Kid

Jun 30, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

From Troy to Tulsa: Greek Tragedy in S.E. Hinton’s World

How The Outsiders and Rumble Fish turn street fights into mythic tragedy

Jun 27, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Unseen, Unheard, Unfree: Ellison, Wright, and Camus on the Weight of Being

What three outsiders—Invisible Man, Bigger Thomas, and Meursault—teach us about race, meaning, and the unbearable silence of society

Jun 26, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

The War for Your Soul

What Platoon, The Karate Kid, and Star Wars Teach Us About Mentorship

Jun 25, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

The Chains We Forge: Rousseau, Maladaptive Dependence, and the Quiet Surrender of Power

Why trusting authority too much can quietly cost us our freedom—and what Rousseau still has to teach us.

Jun 24, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

Time Is a Lie Unless You Make It Count

What Back to the Future, About Time, and The Time Traveler’s Wife teach us about real time management.

Jun 23, 2025 • Tariq Ahmad

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