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What Makes for a Healthy Society?

In a 2014 preface for his 1978 book The Ohlone Way , a description of how the indigenous peoples of California’s Bay Area lived before Europeans arrived, Malcolm Margolin shared a list of what he thought constituted a healthy society: Sustainable relationship with the

Empty Nest? Or Open Door?

Last year, Gretchen Rubin wrote a widely circulated piece about trading the “empty nest” metaphor for something that “emphasizes possibility”: the open door. I somehow hadn’t read it when it came out, but being in the midst of emptying the nest/opening the door, it was

In Praise of Comfort Films

In his latest video essay , Thomas Flight praises the comfort film and shares some examples (The Big Lebowski, Perfect Days, Mon Oncle, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Moonrise Kingdom) from a few different types. We want high stakes to make things interesting. But if you’re