Category

Nonfiction

Category

On the whole, doubt often gets a bad rap. We don’t like it; we prefer certainty. But the ways in which we deal with doubt may reveal some insights into what makes us human and how to find your way in a life in which uncer­tainty will always play a part.

Teenage boys are more inter­ested in binge-watching the latest anime than going to a classical music perfor­mance. Still, it’s my job as a parent to expose my sons to different cultural experi­ences, so that they can make up their own minds what to hold on to as they emerge into adulthood.

The notion that things “happen for a reason” is a powerful idea. It is also a dangerous one. The concept of “agency” is so central to our under­standing of ourselves and our world that we apply it even where there is no agency to be found.