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October 20, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
The Wright Show
- Jay's new book on sadness, The Gate of Tears
- The most common mistake we make in dealing with sadness
- Examining the contours of your negative emotions
- Connections between Jewish and Buddhist teachings
- Jay: Pushing away the difficult is 90% of the difficult
- Spirituality and the power of negative thinking
June 20, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rachel Vorona Cote
Culturally Determined
- Rachel's essay on her mother's death, "The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning"
- Aryeh recalls mourning his father in the pre-social media era
- A moment when language fails
- Is it possible to talk about death with sincerity on Twitter?
- The many (often gendered) Victorian rituals of mourning
- Rachel's forthcoming book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
- Do you want to be memorialized for eternity on Facebook?
October 14, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
The Wright Show
May 15, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Leah Finnegan
Culturally Determined
- How Leah realized that she should not "be herself"
- The mental health benefits of getting a dog
- Leah: We must bring back Kierkegaardian irony
- Leah on the scourge of "urgent earnestness"
- Is it ethical to not read the news?
- Leah's reflections on being "a year Twitter sober"
- Lessons from the great "horseface" controversy of 2018
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