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Monday, April 1, 2024

Companions in Misery

I met this author, Mariana Alessandri, in Boston. She's likely going to be one of our Lyceum speakers next Fall. Stay tuned...

What can Schopenhauer, philosophy's best known pessimist, tell us about New Yorkers?

I had just arrived home from my summer vacation — a week in a Minnesota cabin whose brochure warned "no crabbiness allowed" — when I came upon a study that declared New York the "unhappiest city in America." I doubt many people were surprised by the results — New Yorkers, both in lore and reality, can be hard to please, and famously outspoken about their grievances — but as a born-and-raised New Yorker, and as a philosopher, I was suspicious of how the study defined happiness... (continues)

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