Fragility
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The Battle for Hope March 26, 2024
Michel Houellebecq’s infamous novel Submission features Francois, a middle-aged literary scholar who functions as a postmodern rendering of Durtal, the main character of J.K. Huysmans’s turn-of-the-century decadent novels. Francois’s academic and per...
Steeped in Fragility March 26, 2024
In 2018’s The Coddling of The American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt contended that kids are inherently “antifragile”—that is, they benefit from adversity. But instead of “preparing the child for the road, not the road for the child,” paren...
VICTIM March 22, 2024
Mr. Martin pulled back the curtain. But my real transformation began at Donlon. It makes perfect sense now. Donlon was a whole new ecosystem where I could hone my new superpower. In fact, it was in one of my very first classes as a college stu...
What Is American Riviera Orchard? March 21, 2024
Recently, while the entire world was wondering, “Where the hell is Kate Middleton?,” her sister-in-law Meghan Markle took to Instagram to remind us all where she still is: in the business of selling herself.The self-exiled princess’s new initiative i...
