Author Archives: Dr. Hare

Season’s Greetings

Dear Dr. Hare, thanks so much for your reply. I just noted that you did not send me a season’s greetings card, and that you actually never do that. I still get cards from people I met in the distant past, before I decided to do only things I like, with people I like. That was [...]
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Rites Of Competition

Dear Dr. Hare, it strikes me that Americans have raised competition to an art form. I don’t mean that Americans are more competitive than other people. It’s more about the idea of winning, and an interesting readiness to accept a complete lack of skill (I’m thinking of a TV show about people climbing Mount Everest – [...]
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This Year, I Just Can’t Bring Myself To Go To Europe

“Dear Dr. Hare, this year, it seems that I just can’t bring myself to go to Europe for the summer. I don’t know what it is. Maybe the new apartment? I feel like I live the life of some pampered movie star here, compared to the old place up in the sky near Hudson River, with [...]
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