The Denial File
What We Can't Think About—and Why


Of Pets and Humans
Daniel Liechty | June 26, 2012
After a wonderful week at the Ozark Sufi Dance Camp, it’s back to “real life.” Gratefully, I take with me the many conversations I had …

Fido at the Food Dish
Kirby Farrell | June 21, 2012
What we can’t think about: People vote against their self-interest especially when nobody challenges them Why do working people vote against their own self-interest? The …

Choosing our illusions without care
Bill Bornschein | June 14, 2012
It is poetic justice that the Ernest Becker Foundation’s home base, Seattle, also provides us with the leitmotif of our age, expressed in the final …
