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One a week, every Monday. Choose a strand or just start at the top.
Philosophy · Issue 1 · June 22, 2026 · 13 min
People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. What do we think we’re racing toward when we worry we’ll run out of time?
Relationships · Issue 4 · July 13, 2026 · 19 min
You love them and you'd do anything for them–and some dark, hidden part of you wishes they would just stop needing you. Where does that anger come from?
Money · Issue 8 · August 10, 2026 · 14 min
The silence in the house when a bill arrived. The way one of them read the right-hand side of the menu first. You learned money long before you ever earned any. So how much of your relationship with it is even yours?
Society · Issue 7 · August 3, 2026 · 16 min
Sometimes the loudest moral fury lands suspiciously close to the ranter's own temptations. How much of our collective rage is just a way to outrun what we hate in ourselves?
Relationships · Issue 3 · July 6, 2026 · 12 min
You don't want them now, but you don't want them gone either. What happens to us when we turn people into insurance against our own loneliness?
Relationships · Issue 5 · July 20, 2026 · 18 min
A favor you didn't ask for, a gift you didn't want, and suddenly you owe someone something invisible. How does love turn into a ledger?
Psychology · Issue 2 · June 29, 2026 · 11 min
A friend describes you perfectly and you flinch, even though they mean it kindly. Why does accurate attention so often feel like a threat?
Society · Issue 6 · July 27, 2026 · 20 min
Everyone in the room knows the rule makes no sense, and everyone follows it anyway. What are we really afraid of when we go along with what we quietly know is nonsense?
