We all know time was different during the Pandemic – slowing down, stretching, fading, a year happening in a day and a day that went on for ages. Or was it two days?
philosophy
A Norwegian philosopher once said that human consciousness was a terrible mistake. To be honest, we can’t blame him.
Hello, folks — Festivus greetings to all our sweeties and babies who have followed this blog and our work for the last 16 years.
In this week’s best-of roundup, we think about Rainer Maria Rilke, the ontology of God, and Italian pop music from the 1970s.
Diana Ross, Simone Weil, and our beloved Scaramucci go head to head in this week’s round-up of reading recommendations.
In a time of goblin mode, we think about C.S. Lewis, Christian apologetics, and Nancy Fraser.
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
Reach out and don’t touch someone.