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My favorite books of 2024
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How subjective things become objective
Clap if you believe
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Is the Holy Spirit from Africa?
The circumstantial evidence
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Equality makes friendship possible
And friendship is how we come alive
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The infinite field of Japanese poetry
Start anywhere, go everywhere
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My favorite books of 2023
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Does anything really matter?
The modern search for values
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The hurricane of history
Are revolutions only good on the long view?
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When boys ruled Halloween
The secret history of a spooky night
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The Tao Te Ching is a political document
And this changes what it means
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Whatever happened to American pragmatism?
We need our Emersonian mojo back
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Why we feel powerless and all our options seem dumb
The mass man lives
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The future looks anime
Thanks, Japan
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The cowboys are not alright
Lonesome Dove and the doom loops of American masculinity
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What everybody gets wrong about Aristotle’s Poetics
It’s a tragedy, really
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Emotions are information: Audre Lorde vs Jonathan Haidt
“When we turn from anger we turn from insight”
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Morality starts with vision
An introduction to Iris Murdoch's ethical imagination
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Does humanity exist?
It's the idealism of Elon Musk that should worry us most
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Alien grace: The tortured faith of Flannery O’Connor
The God she longed for could only be found in suffering and death
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Dante's Inferno is a video game
Hell is not a story but an experience
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The horses of war are running again
A thousand miles with a melancholy 8th Century Chinese poet
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