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What discussions of male loneliness and its symptoms miss is a deep social problem that is coming for everyone, but which has just hit men first — a loss of transcendence. Institutions that previously offered this to men have been gutted, leaving them completely on their own. And what could be more lonely than pure… Read more

On Little Liberties An interesting news clip from the 1980s has been making the rounds showing initial reactions by Californians to the implementation of a law that reduced the legal maximum blood alcohol content for operating a motor vehicle from 0.15 to 0.10 (still well above today’s 0.08). In the clip, we are treated to… Read more

As sadness has lost its cultural cache, the cult of psychopathology has continued to grow, and in the transition we’ve lost sight of a terribly important condition: melancholia.… Continue reading Admitting Melancholia → Read more