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on telling our stories
David Brooks recently asked in his NYT column whether we should think of our lives not as stories but as games (or, more precisely, as series of games…
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Jul 28
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on the pandemic blues
and why its second year was so much harder than the first one
Tara Isabella Burton
Jun 11
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On tragedy, comedy, and the substance of life
with reference to Frasier and Ariadne auf Naxos
Tara Isabella Burton
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Dhananjay Jagannathan
Apr 9
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On liberal education
Against the Expertise Model of Education One of the first questions I typically get when I tell people outside the academy that I teach philosophy is…
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Mar 14
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On marriage
and what it is for
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Jan 16
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on the greatest Christmas movie of all time
reflections on Whit Stillman's Metropolitan (1990)
Tara Isabella Burton
Dec 27, 2021
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on Sondheim
and the good of love, children, and art
Tara Isabella Burton
Nov 20, 2021
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On cultural appropriation (II)
In my first essay for Line of Beauty, I wrote about brunch and its sociality. I didn’t say anything there, however, about the genre of ‘brunch food’, as…
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Nov 15, 2021
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On the spirit of the game
It’s perhaps off-brand for a tweedy academic, but I love sports. In particular, I am obsessed with cricket, the sport I grew up playing as a child in…
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Oct 9, 2021
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on sex negativity
(and on the promise of eros)
Tara Isabella Burton
Oct 5, 2021
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on cultural appropriation
I’ve often felt a good essay was like a spiderweb, the several strands not merely connecting to but strengthening one another, even at some distance…
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Sep 18, 2021
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on vintage
or: can we look forward and backward at once?
Tara Isabella Burton
Sep 8, 2021
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