Alain de Botton
The Grace Period Is Over (Or Is it?)
For Post-Covid Life, We Need a More Reassuring Sense of What is Normal
Here Comes Your 19th Nervous Breakthrough
A Crisis Represents an Appetite for Growth That Hasn’t Found Another Way of Expressing Itself.
The Consolation of a Low Anthropology
“A Philosophy of Consolation Directs Us to Two Important Salves: Understanding and Companionship.”
The Gift of Being Like Everyone Else
“What We Have in Common with Others Comprises What is Most Cherishable in Ourselves.”
The Pagan Priests of Mockingbird
Here’s one of the lists from this most recent issue of our magazine, The Deja […]
Anhedonia: The Disease of Happy People
Falling in love stereotypically brings with it a come-what-may optimism. It is a symptom of […]
For Those We Love, A Healthy Dose of Pessimism
Alain de Botton explains why we are cruelest to the ones we are closest to. […]
Something Major Has Gone Wrong Here: Why Alain de Botton Loves the …
A quick excerpt from a recent interview with School of Life founder Alain de Botton in the […]
Why We Eat (and Think About Eating) Too Much
Another excerpt from Mark Greif’s intimidatingly excellent essay collection Against Everything, this time as an […]
You Complete Me? Grace, Loneliness and the Religion of Romance …
Carrying on with the videos from Tyler, here’s the first of the breakouts, courtesy of […]
Insanity, Marriage, and the Virgin Mary
I couldn’t let this day pass without posting my favorite passage from Alain de Botton’s […]
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