In his New York Times column for March 6, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, whom I have always admired, talks about the “15-minute city,” a concept that has been much in the news, partly because of being advocated by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris (
“Teach us to care and not to care,” says T.S. Eliot in Ash Wednesday. Let the reader of the following newsletter beware: it is written by someone who…
In an article in Harvard Business Review in 2017, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that there is a “loneliness epidemic.” Whether or not…
Reviews of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water are sometimes critical of its rather schematic plot and characterization, and also its rather bland…
This newsletter continues a meditation upon memory—though a specific kind of memory: general and cultural rather than personal, extraverted and…
As I have admitted in previous newsletters, I have a bad memory, which limits me in any number of ways, both practically and intellectually. I am not…
I have always been struck by a repeated assertion of one of my heroes, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, about those people he called…
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Newsletter writers’ anxiety syndrome has two variations. One is, “Will I run out of things to write about?” The other is, “Am I beginning to repeat…
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