FeaturedNew Existentialists The Future of Existential Psychology: Was Nietzsche Right? If the future of Existential Psychology could be reduced to a bumper sticker, it might…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists With Great Power Comes…Amorality? Penn State, Goldman Sachs, Enron, University of Virginia, SuperPACS, the Catholic Church–we live in an…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists What Gives Your Job Meaning? Those lucky enough to have jobs are spending more and more time at them—so it…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists Numbers That Lie If there is an “original sin” to intellectual culture of the last 500 years, it…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists Why Can’t “Dead Poets Society” Get Any Love? The legendary movie about the conflict between rote learning and passionate engagement with the humanities…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists The sad split between intellectual culture and human nature – a little light reading A conversation with a fellow writer turned into miniature a culture war last month when…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists We turn into villains because we don’t know how to be heroes: the appeal of “evil” in the 21st century Are we addicted to evil? That’s the provocative question asked by Stephen Metcalf in an…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists Our Music Is Getting Sadder. What Does That Say About Us? If you get depressed when you turn on the radio, it could be the news…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists Facebook Isn’t Making Us Lonely, But It’s Making It Hard For Us To Be Anything Else There are a lot of hypotheticals around the question: “if we are lonelier, is our…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015
New Existentialists In the 21st century, being a “neurotic” is a good thing Did you know we’re running out of neurotics? According to an essay in the New…BenjaminFebruary 19, 2015