In a Hotel
There is a familiar feeling here: existential dread, impending doom, a light dose of despair.
The Egoists and the Altruists
by
Mark Dunbar
Posted on August 8, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Alamy, Shutterstock.
The philosophical divide doesn’t neatly correspond with our political divide. There are egoists on all sides, just as there are altruists.
In Through the Out Door
Posted on July 31, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Michael Odelberth/Unsplash.
An abandoned—or abandoning—god might also reappear.
The Elon Effect
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on July 25, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Shutterstock photos.
Are we both perpetrators and victims of the Elon Effect?
Man Thinks, God Laughs
Kundera’s novels are expansive and support irreconcilable yet arguably valid points of view.
Who’s Afraid of Barbara Wawa?
Posted on July 11, 2023
in THR Web Features
Image: Left: George W. Romney and Barbara Walters with President Richard Nixon,1969, public domain, White House Photo Office Collection. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Richard_Nixon,_George_W._Romney,_and_Barbara_Walters.jpg; Right: Barbara Walters interviewing Gerald and Betty Ford, 1976; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Image B2386-12A; public domain, work of US Federal Government. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbara_Walters-The_Fords.jpg; Center: Barbara Walters’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Shutterstock.
That I have no idea who Barbara Walters is doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that this is the Times.
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