Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for
“It’s no accident that the best idea I’ve ever had in my life — perhaps maybe the best one I’ll ever have in my life — came to
[G. K.] Chesterton argued that a man compelled by lack of choice or by social pressure to play golf when he would rather be attending to some solitary
This is easy to play as a "news of the weird" piece, but having spent lots of time studying the benefits of mind-wandering and restorative activities, I can't
One of my favorite movies is the under-appreciated Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt movie Edge of Tomorrow, in which Cruise has to relive a disastrous battle hundreds of
Emma Seppala, whose new book The Happiness Something Or Other came out this week, is doing an admirable job of hitting the airwaves to promote the book. (I
As someone who’s done plenty of readings at bookstores (and, I hope, will do plenty more in 2016!), I really appreciate the thinking behind Morioka Shoten, a bookstore in
It's kind of amazing that this needs to be a thing, and can be seen as an avant-garde phenomenon: a distraction-free concert. In classical circles, a performance of
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I have to start by confessing that I love LOVE LOVE Pixar movies. I think Cars and The Incredibles are fantastic, I love Finding Nemo (it's amazing how little kids at