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A short time ago, on reaching the age of 80, Jane Brody published an essay called “How to Age Gracefully” in the New York Times. Feedback on the discus…
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To those interested in my theme of imagination as the home of human life I have recommended the accessible and delightful little book The Educated Imag…
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In my last newsletter, commemorating Labor Day, I spoke of the cult of overwork in the United States, contrasting it with the failed prophecy in the 19…
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On Monday, the United States celebrates Labor Day, designated a national holiday in 1894, celebrating the dignity and worth of labor and the working cl…
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This week I returned to teaching at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where I was a student from 1969 to 1973 and a ful…
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This week’s newsletter is about ghosts, and, yes, it no doubt should have come out last week, on Friday the 13th. But it was a matter of timing: at tha…
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In 1951, scholar-guru Alan Watts published a book called The Wisdom of Insecurity. No security is possible in this world, Watts said, and the quest to …
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Readers interested in the themes of this newsletter—imagination, literature, and mythology—will be interested in a new film that has been garnering a f…
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This newsletter continues the meditation of the previous newsletter about the role of labels and categories in human life, the way in which we understa…
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Recently, Andrew Cuomo’s daughter got more attention than she perhaps wanted by coming out as a “demisexual,” defined as someone who does not feel sexu…
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We write things down to preserve them. When we were children, we sat in the back seat looking out the window as scenes passed swiftly and perpetually p…
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In the United States, our annual holiday celebration of freedom has come and gone. This year, it was a holiday of mixed emotions: a celebration of the …
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