Pessimism is back. That will not surprise anyone who has been keeping track of the nation’s pulse over the past several months — or perhaps the last several years. Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech, ...

Markus Moos receives research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario. University of Waterloo provides funding as ...

Jean-Paul Sartre, a very short, very cheerful Parisian, lectured at the Carnegie Chamber Music Hall last week without provoking a riot or a single refined cry of “Salaud! ” or “Fumiste!,” the latter, ...

Existentialist ideas have seen a remarkable comeback during the COVID-19 pandemic, from Camus, Sartre, and de Beauvoir to Heidegger and Pascal. The thread running through all these appeals to ...