The Denial File
What We Can't Think About—and Why
The Third Spiritual Option
Jeremy Sherman | August 28, 2012
We are mirror mortals, the first known species with the capacity to imagine the full arc of life and to know in definitive detail that we die.
Denying Denial
Kirby Farrell | August 24, 2012
Dumb jokes about the longest river in Egypt assume that denial is as familiar to everyone as the Nile is. But explorers were still searching …
Ambivalence and the Decision Tree
Kirby Farrell | August 23, 2012
Let’s see, where were we? Ah yes, rounding a bend in da Nile, catching a glimpse of the insoluble ambivalence we were talking about. The …
Adolescents and the Scale of Heroism
Bill Bornschein | August 22, 2012
As many of us embark upon a new school year it feels appropriate to reflect on healthy heroism. Late adolescence is a time of vital …
Roberts and Rationality
Daniel Liechty | August 8, 2012
Circumstances conspired to put me on a “political news diet” for the last few weeks – no TV, no newspapers or magazines, no podcasts, no …
Bedtime for Bongo
Kirby Farrell | August 3, 2012
What we can’t think about: when the forces that control us are invisible, we feel helpless. Anxiety, says the doc, is fear whose cause can’t …