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Attention Is Not a Currency, No Matter Who Is Buying
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Seneca in the Inbox: A Stoic Cure for the Age of Notifications
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The Luxury of Enough: Epicurus and the Art of Wanting Less
In a culture that sells more as the answer to everything, an ancient philosopher who lived on bread, water and friendship offers a stranger and more demanding idea of luxury: knowing when to stop.
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Alone, on Purpose: Notes Toward a Better Solitude
Loneliness is a public health concern; solitude is something else entirely. From Montaigne's back ro…
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What a Good Chair Knows About You
We sit in chairs for most of our waking lives and rarely think about them. A former furniture maker…
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Who Is a City For? Strangers, Regulars and the Slow Work of Belonging
Cities promise freedom from the village and often deliver loneliness at scale. An essayist and forme…
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Learning to Die, a Little at a Time
Montaigne believed that to philosophise was to learn how to die. A classicist rereads the ancient ar…
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Nozick's Experience Machine Now Comes With a Monthly Plan
In 1974, a philosopher asked whether you would plug into a machine that guaranteed a perfe…
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A Book About Rest That Refuses to Make You More Productive
In The Unhurried Year, the philosopher Maud Kerrigan argues that rest has been colonised b…
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Six Books for Anyone Who Wonders What Their Work Is For
Careers promise purpose, but the promise often fails to arrive. From Hannah Arendt to two…
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A Philosopher's Guide to the Dinner Party
From Plato's drinking party to Kant's famously convivial lunches, philosophers have taken…
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Is Good Taste Just Money in Disguise?
Hume thought taste could be trained. Kant thought beauty should please without desire. A s…
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In Praise of Pointless Games: A Conversation With Marisol Quint
The philosopher Marisol Quint thinks adults have forgotten how to play, and that the loss…
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Every Good Thought Needs a Long Walk
Kant walked the same route every afternoon. Kierkegaard claimed he had walked himself into…
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Why Small Courtesies Are Not Small
Confucius believed that ritual and manners were not empty formality but the training groun…