John Kaag

John Kaag is author of Hiking with Nietzsche. His new book, American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation, will be published in May.

The Choice Is Ours

Survival of the most meaningful

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2024

Our Pragmatic Present

There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay

By John Kaag | Monday March 27, 2023

Touché-ing the Void

How can we live only to die?

By John Kaag | Monday November 22, 2021

Fatal Courage

How Emerson helped me see, as if for the first time

By John Kaag | Monday December 7, 2020

How to Live With Dying

Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it

By John Kaag | Saturday October 24, 2020

“There Is No Time in the Garden”

The Poetry of W. S. Merwin

By John Kaag | Monday March 11, 2019

Freedom of Thought

The philosophical currents that shaped our nation

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2019

The Choice Is Ours

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2024

Our Pragmatic Present

By John Kaag | Monday March 27, 2023

Touché-ing the Void

By John Kaag | Monday November 22, 2021

Fatal Courage

By John Kaag | Monday December 7, 2020

How to Live With Dying

By John Kaag | Saturday October 24, 2020

“There Is No Time in the Garden”

By John Kaag | Monday March 11, 2019

Freedom of Thought

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2019

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