Realizing My Grandfather’s Sailing Dreams

When Covid hit, we already had the boat, so we only had to throw the lines

Inside the Burns Unit

How Scotland’s national poet brought solace at a time of pain and isolation

Reading Thucydides in a Time of Pandemic

What the Athenian historian’s insights predict about the future of our own democracy

Wave to Me

There’s one thing I won’t relinquish to a pandemic that’s claimed so much

The Plague Year

The more things change, the more they stay the same

On Hugging

What we lose when we can’t get close to the ones we love

The Pandemic Mood

Who created it and how it is maintained

Mad Dogs and Transcendentalists

How the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau differs from today’s libertarianism

Back to School

A return to reading as a private and a public act

Facing Death at the Ends of the Earth

The discovery of the world’s oldest rock offers a hefty dose of perspective

Looking Back From the End of the World

What Thoreau can teach us about living life during—and after—the pandemic

Viral Days

Coronavirus World

Numbers, meaning, and truth

The Dope on Lance

What have we really learned about the cycling legend?

Without Evidence

Reopening as remission

Déconfinement

The French are cautiously re-emerging into a world of uncertainty

Our Posthumous Lives

So many important things must wait

Jordan Rules

The over-the-top, yet welcome, indulgence that is The Last Dance

Love in the Time of Camus

What the French writer can teach us about surviving a pandemic

We Must All Become Yogis

An ancient Hindu text offers advice on how to remain sane in uncertain times

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