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The Thoughts are Not (Always) Free, After All
Our private lives are never quite as private as we would like them to be. I turned 56 last Monday. For my birthday, my children gave me a gift card. To…
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Who Gets to Have Imposter Syndrome?
An article in Glamour today addresses a very familiar bugaboo: imposter syndrome. My father called imposter syndrome “the suspicion of one’s own…
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Maybe "Peace and Love" Means Something: Ringo Starr and the Politics of the Moment
Many years ago, I served on the Vestry of my local Episcopal Church. The rector, a great believer in personality tests, liked to start Vestry meetings…
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The "Gathering of Thought Criminals" and the False Dichotomies of Disgrace
Several people this week kindly sent me a link to this New Yorker story: The Party Is Cancelled. The site is paywalled for some of you, so here’s the…
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Online Friendship, Loyalty, and the Death of Dooce
I was 14 when I first read 84 Charing Cross Road. First a book, then a play, and finally a film (with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins), 84 Charing…
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I Have Better Things to Do than Apologize for Sentimentality
No one else in the house showed any interest in watching the coronation. Selfishly, I was rather glad. I wanted to talk to the television under my…
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Is Suffering a Prerequisite for Justice? More on Schadenfreude
On Saturday night, I offered up my own hierarchy of sins, naming schadenfreude as the very worst. A friend of my mother’s reads this Substack and…
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