On this inauguration day, we dedicate this platform to finding those positions, to develop the techniques, to find the pressure-points in our media and rhetoric to make sense of our new conditions, technological and political, and to articulate commonalities and goals.
The cat café, I suggest with tongue only slightly in cheek, is a spiritual oasis in the hypercompetitive urban landscape.
The question for Silence is not whether another world exists but how such a recognition should affect our lives here.
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We need romantic amplitude of experience lest life become nothing more than King Lear and the Yankees winning all the time.
For the moment, according to Thomas Edsall, the former sufferers of what might be called the Great White Depression are feeling "elated." What might this mean?
Hope for our troubled times.