A Norwegian philosopher once said that human consciousness was a terrible mistake. To be honest, we can’t blame him.

It was the summer of 2022 in Nallagandla, Hyderabad, India, and I was sitting in a public boarding school classroom. The ceiling fan was running at medium speed.

To paraphrase the great Megadeth, peace sells — but who’s renting?

What happens to your online selfhood when you die?

The sensibility of Gen Z is uncritical and anti-intellectual, assuming that everyone suffers from crippling anxiety and trauma, a sensitivity which any criticism might imperil.

Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing

Recently at a writer’s conference—AWP in Seattle, for those who are curious—I bumped into a colleague I knew […]