What Remains:
Living Well in the Presence of Death
What does it mean to live well when nothing is guaranteed?
In What Remains: Living Well in the Presence of Death, Dr. Matthew Weinberg confronts one of humanity’s oldest questions: how should we live knowing that our time is limited?
Blending philosophy, history, religion, literature, and personal reflection, this deeply engaging work explores mortality not as a problem to solve, but as a reality that gives life its urgency and meaning. Through conversations with his children and encounters with some of history’s most enduring thinkers and stories—including Gilgamesh, Job, Socrates, the Stoics, Augustine, and Dante—Weinberg examines grief, responsibility, agency, faith, and what remains when certainty falls away.
Rather than offering easy answers or comforting clichés, What Remains invites readers into a thoughtful exploration of how human beings have wrestled with death across cultures and centuries. It asks difficult questions about fairness, suffering, purpose, and moral responsibility while offering a powerful framework for living with honesty, integrity, and attention.
This is not a book about the afterlife.
It is a book about this life.
For readers of philosophy, spirituality, ethics, and personal growth, What Remains offers a profound meditation on what truly matters, how we carry meaning through uncertainty, and why the awareness of death may be one of our greatest teachers.
Thoughtful, accessible, and deeply human, this is a book about grief, meaning, and the art of living well before the end arrives.
Where Agency Belongs:
How Control, Trust, and Authority Broke—
and How to Place Them Again
What happens when our understanding of freedom, control, and responsibility begins to break down?
In Where Agency Belongs, Professor Matthew Weinberg challenges the modern assumption that more choice always means more freedom. Through a powerful blend of philosophy, history, and real-world insight, he reveals how misplaced agency has reshaped our institutions, strained our relationships, and left individuals carrying burdens they were never meant to bear.
Introducing the concept of situated agency, Weinberg offers a new framework for understanding where responsibility truly belongs
—across individuals, communities, and systems.
Drawing on influences from classical philosophy to contemporary thought, this book reframes some of the most urgent questions of our time: Who should decide? Who should act? And what happens when those roles are confused?
Clear, thought-provoking, and deeply relevant, Where Agency Belongs is a bold reexamination of modern life—and a guide toward restoring balance in a world that has lost its sense of place.
