Tag: "existentialism"

It’s A Wonderful Life

Becky Lee Meadows considers questions of guilt, innocence, and despair in this classic Christmas movie.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025: Films]

Sarah Bakewell, popular author of engaging books about exciting ideas, chats with Tim Madigan about Iris Murdoch, Montaigne, the meaning of hope, humanism, fallibility, and her own life, among other topics.
[Issue 164: October/November 2024: Interview]

Transcendental French Freedom

A comic by Corey Mohler about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world.
[Issue 163: August/September 2024: Existential Comics]

The Banshees of Inisherin

Terri Murray thinks the film perfectly captures the zeitgeist [CONTAINS SPOILERS].
[Issue 158: October/November 2023: Films]

Nostalgia, Morality, & Mass Entertainment

Adam Kaiser finds a fine case of mass existential longing.
[Issue 157: August/September 2023: Articles]

Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

Kate Taylor recalls a ‘humanist’ classic by Jean-Paul Sartre.
[Issue 152: October/November 2022: Classics]

Living & Coexisting by Courage, Generosity & Wisdom

Finn Janning says empathy and compassion are necessary for our thriving and even our survival.
[Issue 148: February/March 2022: Love & Romance]

Minding the Gap

Dylan Skurka on a film that suggests it’s possible to choose to overcome your upbringing.
[Issue 147: December 2021 / January 2022: Films]

Existing in the World

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 145: August/September 2021: Editorial]

The Adventures of Jean-Paul Sartre

Sam Kelly says Jean-Paul Sartre was the Hunter S. Thompson of existentialism.
[Issue 145: August/September 2021: Existentialism & Life]

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