The question of the meaning of life has often been addressed largely from the point of view of human experience—covering our values, hopes, and searches for meaning. But when one extends the domain of exploration to include existence as a whole, the question of this...

This music thing, that’s the strangest thing that the human being does without question. This music: it’s what allows us to believe that the movement of certain air waves can cause us to weep, remember, fall in love, feel as if our chest has split open. This music,...

Fashion remains one of the least appreciated powers of the human experience. It’s something we treat as ornamentation: the surface level of the "real" thing. As if fashion itself was somehow less intellectual, less substantive and less meaningful than the "real" us,...