Existentialism
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Only Disconnect September 19, 2024
The women are in their early thirties or late twenties. Both remain nameless. Their parents have died in separate car accidents. They live alone—a small apartment in Tel Aviv, a larger one bedroom in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. One has a brother who sends...
Twin Peaks and the Divine September 18, 2024
A few weeks back, on an episode of the pod that turned very existential, Twitter's Audrey Horne (rightly) pressed me about what she felt was a cop-out response. I had invoked “art” and “the sublime” as a possible answer to dealing with existing in an...
Can Poetry Save a Nation? September 18, 2024
In a globalized world, why should anyone want to be German, French, Spanish, or Hungarian? “None of the above” isn’t a full-credit answer to the question of national identity. This is the great existential question for the West. Nations are the carri...
The Worst Thing About This College Football Season September 04, 2024
In late September 2008, the fourth-ranked University of Florida football team hosted unranked Ole Miss in Gainesville. The Gators were a year removed from a national title, and they hoped to get back to the pinnacle. But things went quite badly that ...
