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Winter 2022

Responses to Our Autumn 2021 Issue

On Kindness

Almost everybody wants to be thought of as kind, if only as a strategy

At 90

The Submerged

The Art of Losing

The end of the war in Afghanistan shows the danger of our commitment to perpetual optimism

The Capital of Self-Reliance

How a backwater became a philosophical powerhouse

The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross

The Bird That Sang I Am

Poems about the place where we belong

Touché-ing the Void

How can we live only to die?

The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Paul Bloom

In the Mushroom

True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

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