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Escaping Into History

We should, at moments, be allowed to admit to longing to be living in a different age, and not to have to think about all the things that people of our times are so strongly supposed to be obsessed by.

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The Inevitability of Choice

There are so few public reminders of life’s necessary trade-offs. Yet once we understand the incompatibilities, we are in a better position to do what we always needed to do: choose.

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What Would Jesus Do?

The Christian exercise is ripe for secular re-adaptation. We should train ourselves to ask: What would a kind, calm and mature person do or say now?

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How to Leave a Party

Sociability

How to Leave a Party

It is possible to catch a telling glimpse of our levels of underconfidence in a sad quirk of our approach…
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On Becoming a Hermit

Sociability

On Becoming a Hermit

It’s one of the telling quirks of history that just as the world was growing ever noisier and more urbanised,…
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Auditing Our Worries

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Auditing Our Worries

One of the basic courtesies we almost never remember to pay our worries is to go back and check how…
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Am I a Bad Person?

Self-Knowledge

Am I a Bad Person?

We tend to spend a good deal of psychological energy warding off a possibility that feels as abhorrent as it…
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