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Like, Memes: The unseriousness of ironic detachment
On the need for seriousness and what happens when we are controlled by cheap irony.
Matthew Morgan
Jun 24
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Is "Everything Everywhere All At Once" Missing Something?
The film makes big claims and hints at even bigger ideas – but at the end of it all, is there any there there?
Matthew Morgan
Jun 10
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On Gratitude: A virtuous cycle
On Douglas Murray's defence of gratitude, how being grateful resists the poison of resentment, and the reciprocal nature of appreciating the good in…
Matthew Morgan
May 26
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Doctor Not-So-Strange: The shallowness of the MCU
Have the Marvel movies stopped being worth our time, and what does deserve our attention?
Matthew Morgan
May 13
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Reader
How good reading brings us closer to others, and how efforts to personalise all the settings on our lives make us lonelier – and more narcissistic …
Matthew Morgan
Apr 29
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"The Darjeeling Limited": In search of what's missing
On Wes Anderson's 2007 film, The Darjeeling Limited, and how absence is at the heart of its story – and often at the core of how we understand…
Matthew Morgan
Apr 19
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Strange Relations: Unusual pairings of ordinary things
On what happens when otherwise mundane, familiar items are placed together – in museum displays, encyclopaedias, and other strange situations – and what…
Matthew Morgan
Mar 25
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Course Correction: Obstacles to reading
On the things that get in the way of reading, and some possible methods of clearing those obstacles.
Matthew Morgan
Mar 11
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Following The Science: Why facts without values can be dangerous
How following the facts without a preferred destination can lead us into hell.
Matthew Morgan
Feb 25
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Wildfires Of The Soul: How to begin again after tragedy
H G Wells not only recovered from suffering but built a better life out of it – and we can do the same.
Matthew Morgan
Feb 11
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"Midnight Mass": Disturbing the comfortable
How great fiction allows us to inhabit other lives, and how the Netflix series Midnight Mass exemplifies this.
Matthew Morgan
Jan 28
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Reaching Out: On the value of open dialogue
On the impulse to condemn and close conversation, and why we need – now more than ever – to remain open to those with whom we disagree.
Matthew Morgan
Jan 14
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