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John Kaag

John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, a 2019 Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute, and the author of Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are.

Our Pragmatic Present

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

Touché-ing the Void

How can we live only to die?

by John Kaag | Monday, November 22, 2021
Fatal Courage

Fatal Courage

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

by John Kaag | Monday, December 07, 2020
How to Live With Dying

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”

“There Is No Time in the Garden”

The Poetry of W. S. Merwin

by John Kaag | Monday, March 11, 2019
Freedom of Thought

Freedom of Thought

The philosophical currents that shaped our nation

by John Kaag | Monday, March 04, 2019

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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