KEEN ON Suffering

Here’s my conversation with the MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya, author of the new Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way. Setiya’s thesis fits into the zeitgeist of miserableness currently infecting both progressives and conservatives. If it’s not Trump/end of democracy, COVID, & Putin/Ukraine, then it’s China/Taiwan, global warming & racism/critical race theory. We are living, they tell us, in uniquely dark times. Yawn. I think not.