Living on the Fault Lines
Because when you live on the fault lines, you learn to draw boundaries.
Because when you live on the fault lines, you learn to draw boundaries.
About a month ago—I’m not saying it was on Ash Wednesday, but it might have been—I downloaded the TikTok app on my phone.
Earth: Look, I try not to pay much attention to human politics. I have so much to do, what with plate techtonics and weather systems
What does a vote mean? What do we think it does? What is, you might say, our theory of voting? It seems to me that
I’m paying now, hiking up a very steep learning curve as I try to get back in the game. The game, of course, has changed.
Can we enjoy the process of puzzling things out when we’re not sure, at the end of it, that there’s an answer?
Our worry about fake news is more corrosive to our trust in media and in institutions than actual fake content has been. We wonder if
We must increase our capacity for and interest in virtues and their formation, especially in this time of climate crisis, not succumb to a belief
Macfarlane’s journeys, remarkable as much for the philosophical and emotional strain as for the physical rigors they demanded, uncover what underlands mean to us: in