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01/08/2024

To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die

Eliminating the fear of death

by Rachel Ashcroft

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03/06/2023

Jottings During Covid

Quiet observations on time paused

by Balu George

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09/01/2022

We Tell Stories in Order to Die

Word to death

by David Stromberg

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05/26/2022

A New Scar in Time

Marcel Proust, art, and time

by Greg Gerke

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05/23/2022

Death Lessons

Distraught grievers, graceful Graces, and tattooed ladies

by Larry Patten

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03/17/2022

Theses on Sugar Man

Sixto Rodriguez and the challenge to "posterity"

by Sam Kahn

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07/26/2021

The Radicalism of W.E.B. Du Bois

Over the course of his life, the polemicist of the NAACP evolved leftward

by Arvind Dilawar

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04/01/2021

Chasing Shadows

The pleasures (and perils) of staring into the shadow

by Erik Mortenson

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02/04/2021

Gnosticism and the Smoking Gun

What else are we wrong about and other questions we ask while tying our shoes

by David Frost

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04/02/2020

Plain Sense in Buffalo

Past as epilogue

by Greg Gerke

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