Alain de Botton

When we are finally situated in the pool chair under the umbrella, we can’t sit still.

For Post-Covid Life, We Need a More Reassuring Sense of What is Normal

A Crisis Represents an Appetite for Growth That Hasn’t Found Another Way of Expressing Itself.

Alain de Botton on the (Church) Architecture of Happiness.

“A Philosophy of Consolation Directs Us to Two Important Salves: Understanding and Companionship.”

“What We Have in Common with Others Comprises What is Most Cherishable in Ourselves.”

Here’s one of the lists from this most recent issue of our magazine, The Deja […]

Falling in love stereotypically brings with it a come-what-may optimism. It is a symptom of […]

Alain de Botton explains why we are cruelest to the ones we are closest to. […]

A quick excerpt from a recent interview with School of Life founder Alain de Botton in the […]

Another excerpt from Mark Greif’s intimidatingly excellent essay collection Against Everything, this time as an […]

Carrying on with the videos from Tyler, here’s the first of the breakouts, courtesy of […]