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Truth Be Told: Do facts matter in fiction?

On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art. “Kind reader, with keen judgment...

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"Klara and the Sun": On Friendship and Being Seen

"The Festival of Insignificance": On Asking Big Questions

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Truth Be Told: Do facts matter in fiction?

On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art. “Kind reader, with keen judgment...

Founders, Builders, Heroes: What we need to fix problems

On the courage required to face our problems and the strength needed to overcome them. There’s a passage in Giovanni’s Room by James...

"Home is so Sad": The sorrow in the conservative soul

How Philip Larkin's 1958 poem describes the sense of loss that haunts the conservative worldview. Home is so sad. It stays as it was...

Eternity Now: How to tell a story about the good life

What kind of narrative can we build and share that motivates us to live well, in the absence of a religious story? Some years ago, a...

Like, Memes: The unseriousness of ironic detachment

On the need for seriousness and what happens when we are controlled by cheap irony. The internet meme has a style all of its own, a style...

Is "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Missing Something?

The film makes big claims and hints at even bigger ideas – but at the end of it all, is there any there there? Everything Everywhere All...

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