Life, Death, and other Inconvenient Truths

This blog is an occasionally updated online companion to my book, Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths (MIT Press, 2020).

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Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths (MIT Press, 2020)

The IT book consists of 38 short interlinked chapters, arranged alphabetically, on topics that range from Action and Ambition to War and Youth. As the list of inconvenient truths about the human condition runs to many more than thirty eight, with new ones coming constantly to light, the book is necessarily incomplete. My intention here is to make it slightly less so, while having the kind of bittersweet fun afforded by solving a puzzle that reveals a picture as unsettling as it is edifying. Drop by this site often to find respite from anodyne homilies and Panglossian cheer.

a book companion