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Therapy Speak Kills Romance
Eros can’t endure us talking to each other like that.
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Or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Villain
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Why The New Right Still Can't Beat Hollywood
I asked Jonathan Pageau and Mary Harrington why we can't tell better stories yet. Their answer missed something important.
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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth
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Why I am Christian again
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There Is a House in New Orleans
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Microplastics Are Bullshit
The stubborn sacramentality of ordinary objects.
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What Happens When You Stop Reading
A global oral sensorium machine.
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A Very Simple Introduction to Re-enchantment
With a joke.
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Nostalgia Is Good
Only when we see from out there.
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We Know You’re Using AI
Let me save you the embarrassment.
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A Philosophy Must Be Tolerable to Your Wife to Be True
The necessary burden of contextual intuition.
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Left-Brain Seizures Made Me a Writer
On language, names, and consciousness.
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See You Space Cowboy…
The Metaphysics of Astronauts.
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