The Pattern Detector — featuring the holiday uncle finally getting the day he was born for, a Frenchman who wrote a whole book about repetition (and repeats himself doing it), and, because it’s the recurrence day, basically everyone else coming back too Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: the same thing keeps happening to you, … Read More
The Renovation — featuring a Frenchman who psychoanalyzed your basement, a philosopher who lived to 102 and thus had a great many prejudices to examine, and the most misused sentence in the history of self-help Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: you can put down the substance, do everything right, and still wake up every … Read More
The Workshop — featuring, at long last, a philosopher who is alive and has personally suffered through a group chat, plus the most pessimistic man in history and his poodle Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: the thing currently wearing you down might not be a disaster. It might just be too much. We brace … Read More
The Lighthouse — featuring the most optimistic book title of a terrible century, a returning psychiatrist quoting our holiday uncle, and a season-one curtain call for the entire cast Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: you are probably not going to wreck your life on purpose. Almost nobody does. Nobody wakes up and announces, “Today … Read More
The Safety Net — featuring three words of African philosophy that beat 900 pages of German, a return of the unpronounceable, the one Marx take you can actually use, and the densest man in philosophy explaining why you should ask for help Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: the thing you’ve been blaming this whole … Read More
The Bridge — featuring two philosophers who each built a career on the word “you,” a Frenchwoman who told you to write it down, and our mustachioed problematic uncle making his third holiday appearance Let’s start with an uncomfortable possibility: every feeling you’ve ever swallowed is still in the building. There’s a comforting myth that … Read More