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March 17, 2023
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…
Michael Dolzani
Mar 17
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March 10, 2023
“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…
Michael Dolzani
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March 3, 2023
In an article in Harvard Business Review in 2017, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that there is a “loneliness epidemic.” Whether or not…
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Mar 3
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February 2023
February 24, 2023
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…
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Feb 24
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February 24, 2023
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February 17, 2023
This newsletter continues a meditation upon memory—though a specific kind of memory: general and cultural rather than personal, extraverted and…
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Feb 17
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February 10, 2023
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…
Michael Dolzani
Feb 10
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February 2, 2023
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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Feb 3
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January 2023
January 27, 2023
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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Jan 27
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January 20, 2023
Western literature begins with anger. The first word of Homer’s Iliad in the original Greek is the word for rage: “Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of…
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Jan 20
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January 13, 2023
A great deal of excitement has been stirred up by the release in November of a new form of artificial intelligence, or AI. In addition to being an…
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January 6, 2023
I have always loved the visual arts because of their stillness. A painting or a sculpture does not move. It is at rest. Even if it depicts the most…
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Jan 6
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December 2022
December 30, 2022
Across the map of the world, waves of desperate humanity are sweeping, their homes lost or too dangerous to stay in, and everywhere, in their heartless…
Michael Dolzani
Dec 30, 2022
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December 30, 2022
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