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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...

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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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Act, and Profit By It: The virtues of action in Dante's "Inferno"

On the active pursuit of "knowledge and excellence", and how the road to Hell is never hard to find. 1. It’s a commonly proscribed trope...

The Audience Cut: In praise of flawed films

Directors aren't the only ones who get to edit films the way they want; each of us gets to create our preferred versions too... 1. Here’s...

"A Single Man": Why people are more than they seem

How Isherwood's masterpiece shows up the hollowness of modern, reductive views of what makes us human. 1. It is a truth universally...

An Embarrassment of Riches

The many ways to approach books, movies, and music. 1. I’ve always liked the phrase “an embarrassment of riches”. It has the same strange...

"Petals for Armor": Why it hurts to grow

How Hayley Williams' intimate and personal music explores the pains and pleasures of growth. 1. “I myself was a wilted woman, Drowsy in a...

On "Birdman" or (The People Who Burn, Burn, Burn)

On the meteoric ascent and inevitable crash-and-burn of the tragic hero, from Achilles through Nietzsche to Birdman. "The only people for...

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