“This Website is Pretty Good…”

Psychotherapist Ariel Garten redefines consciousness at TEDx Toronto. "The problem with escaping your day-to-day life," she says, "is that you have to come home eventually." Her question, which she answers in the affirmative, is whether we can "find ways to know ourselves without the escape? Can we redefine our relationship with the technologized world in order to have the heightened sense of self-awareness that we seek? Can we live here and now in our wired web, and still follow those ancient instructions: 'Know thyself'?"

“This inconvenient working-class revolution we are now witnessing has been accused of stupidity—I cursed it myself the day it happened—but the longer you look at it, you realize that in another sense it has the touch of genius, for it intuited the weaknesses of its enemies and effectively exploited them. The middle-class left so delights in being right! And so much of the disenfranchised working class has chosen to be fragrantly, shamelessly wrong.” Year in Reading alumna Zadie Smith shares her thoughts on Brexit.