In celebration of the last few weeks of the Summer Olympics in Paris, I want to write to you about the optimism that the Olympics embody.

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This week, how it’s good to pause and notice the ways we supersede older things with the new while benefiting from the old all the same.

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This week, some words on two books about exploration that I’ve read this summer: Hampton Sides’s The Wide Wide Sea, and Michael Palin’s Erebus.

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This past weekend, history was made when President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. The next 48 hours inspired tremendous hope again.

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This week, I feel compelled by this past weekend’s events to write about the follies of political violence.

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This week, I have a short story for you that I wrote three years ago after the death of a dear friend.

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This week, I’m writing to you with this week’s holiday in mind, with some of my aspirations and hopes for America.

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This week, a few words about the trip I just completed to London and Paris.

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This week, I have a short story for you, in the style of an Irish aisling, a dream narrative, about a tiger basking in the warm February sun.

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This week, I conclude my three-part reflection on Dante’s Divine Comedy with the Paradiso.

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