Opinion
What Would a Good Week Look Like?
The calendar can expose a distance between the life we praise and the life we arrange.
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Ideas & Philosophy
Questions about meaning, ethics, and how we understand the world.
Explainer
What Changes When Ethics Begins With Relationships?
African ethical thought offers a way to examine obligations that an isolated picture of the individual can overlook.
Explainer
Stoicism Is Larger Than a Quote About Resilience
An ancient philosophical system becomes easier to misunderstand when it is reduced to a coping slogan.
Essay
Simone Weil’s Demanding Idea of Attention
Listening to another person can require giving up the answer we arrived with.
Analysis
Effective Altruism and the Question of Who Decides
Measuring good outcomes is useful. Choosing what counts as good still requires a public argument.