Staying for the Truth
Alan Jacobs
The only way out of this prison of self-deception and self-justification is to love and seek the truth.
The only way out of this prison of self-deception and self-justification is to love and seek the truth.
Exploring the social and psychological costs of a life increasingly lived online.
The cleverness that proliferates in public life today is a nuisance.
Confession being fraught as it is with danger for both speaker and listener, the ordinariness of admission is probably the only thing that sustains it.
How are we ethically to evaluate the practice of getting stoned?
It is hard to sustain the illusion that there is anything good about winter after the hundredth day or so.
A hangover is about being poisoned, no doubt. The toxins linger in the body and must be expelled, or waited out. We’re sick with a mini-flu and need to get better. But isn’t a hangover about more than physical toxins, at least some of the time?