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The world was terrible. That’s something I didn’t appreciate for a long time, and I’m still not sure it’s something I really grasp. It’s one thing to see a statistic. It’s another thing entirely to sit and to try to imagine what those numbers are trying to say — what horror is tracked by the […]
There’s something horrific about the idea of hell. Which is, of course, the point of it all. It’s not a particularly scary story without some horror to go alongside it. But I think there’s something far, far, more unsettling than hell itself. Our response. It’s not particularly new as an idea, but forgiveness goes hand […]
The Frenchman wonders whether to stay home with their dying mother, or to go off to war.
This summer I went on vacation with my family to New Hampshire. When I was young we would always come up here. My parents would rent a cabin on a lake, just a ways away from where my aunt and uncle own a small dairy farm. My family hasn’t been to this lake in seven […]
I sit at my desk, by a window that looks out onto the backyard and the road beyond our fence. Every year at Christmas, for my entire college career, I have come home to celebrate with my family. And in the odd hours between watching my mom doing an unfair amount of cooking, I will […]
If something is natural does that mean it is good? While this essay will talk a bit about that question, and it’s inverse, that is not the primary concern. The thesis of this essay is instead that we should be aware of which assumptions we privilege in discussions, and to be especially cautious of buying […]
