Through the Rent, Eternity Enters
You read a poem and it awakens you to something that you already knew.
How to Survive and Thrive in the AI Apocalypse
Posted on May 14, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock photos.
The ironic result of the triumph of the machine may be the creation of an ecosystem in which supra-rational gnostic appeals flourish.
Maybe Even Build a Boat
John Ruskin said, “Lay a brick level in its mortar, or take a straight shaving from a plank, and you’ll have learned a multitude of things that the words of man can never tell.”
Inside Out and Outside In
Posted on April 23, 2024
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Albert Camus, Shutterstock; broken windows photograph, Christian Gafenesch via Unsplash.
Camus embodied an existence that was itself conflicted, caught between the vectors of history and lived experience.
What Will America Look Like After a Second Trump Term?
Trump is a man for our moment. Both that man and moment are less authoritarian than anarchic.
Facing It
Reading words is hard enough for me without having to read faces too.
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