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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
“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
In an article in Harvard Business Review in 2017, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that there is a “loneliness epidemic.” Whether or not…
Michael Dolzani

February 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…
Michael Dolzani
This newsletter continues a meditation upon memory—though a specific kind of memory: general and cultural rather than personal, extraverted and…
Michael Dolzani
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
I have always been struck by a repeated assertion of one of my heroes, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, about those people he called…
Michael Dolzani
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January 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…
Michael Dolzani
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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…
Michael Dolzani
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…
Michael Dolzani
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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…
Michael Dolzani

December 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
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