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April 19, 2024
We celebrate individualism, or we think we do. We may even worry that we celebrate it too much, wondering whether our culture is too individualistic…
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April 12, 2024
The imagination is often thought of as the antithesis of ordinary life, as something that escapes from the everyday into the exotic and strange. But one…
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April 5, 2024
As everyone around here already knows, Cleveland, Ohio lies within the 124-mile-wide band that on April 8, three days after this newsletter appears…
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March 2024
March 29, 2024
The stories we know as Grimm’s Fairy Tales were actually published in 1812 as Children’s and Household Tales. “Children’s” we understand, although we…
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March 22, 2024
Shakespeare’s greatest song appears in his last major play, The Tempest, a sudden, oracular lyric, hauntingly strange: Full fathom five thy father lies…
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March 15, 2024
Is it a virtue to be driven? At times, it seems our greatest admiration is reserved for those whose past is a staggering list of accomplishments, who…
Mar 15
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March 8, 2024
The older I get, the more my life is haunted by invisible buildings. I have written about ghosts, but ghosts are people. These are buildings that used…
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March 1, 2024
When I was, well, inspired to write about the theme of inspiration, I realized that it raises a question. This newsletter’s usual purpose is to…
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February 2024
February 23, 2024
That extraordinary thinker William James declared that “The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments…
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February 16, 2024
In 1933, watching Hitler infect Germany with his nihilistic madness, Thomas Mann saw a parallel in the defeat of Erasmus, the greatest humanist of the…
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February 9, 2024
Disney is celebrating its centenary, and its icon, Mickey Mouse, has entered the public domain. There are those who despise Disney, but I am not one of…
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February 2, 2024
I was going to write a newsletter about the way, but instead find myself writing about not knowing the way. Northrop Frye has an essay called “The…
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