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Living, Fast and Slow
The Drama Hidden in Pace One of the recurring dramas of everyday life is the tension between moving slowly and moving fast. Advice about…
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The Thinker, the Translator, and the Audience
A Small Name for a Larger Question Living outside Japan, I sometimes encounter a new Japanese expression after the conversation around it is already…
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The Thought Within Every Practice
When the Formula Comes Before the Question Many students first encounter mathematics as a sequence of instructions. Memorize the formula, identify the type of…
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The Right to Understand
The Documents That Refused to Speak Most people have encountered a document that appears to be written in English but does not seem addressed…
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The Currency of International Authority
A Court Performing Its Duty and Losing Its Credit An international court issues an arrest warrant. From inside the institution, the act appears straightforward.…
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Activity Without Alarm
The Body That Changes After Dark A respiratory illness can feel like two different conditions depending on the hour. During the day, a cough…
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The Universal Reader Who Does Not Exist
The Feeling of a Clean Page Some pages feel clean before we have decided whether we agree with them. The sentences proceed without congestion.…
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The Grand Narrative Against Grand Narratives
The Distance Between Reputation and Argument A strange discomfort can arise when a celebrated thinker speaks about a subject we know through daily experience.…
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The View We Cannot Possess
The World Seen from Within A religious worldview is rarely experienced by a devout believer as one interpretation among many. From within the faith,…
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When the Watermark Becomes a Signature
The Paper That Once Displayed Its Labor There was a time when the physical appearance of a term paper revealed much about the work…
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The World That Continued
The Book on My Father’s Shelf When I was young, I found a book on my father’s shelf that frightened me more than any…
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The Long Form of a Thinking Life
The Invitation to Stay Open a publication such as Engelsberg Ideas and the screen begins to ask for a different kind of behavior. There…