About Scott Remer

In the last month, three people have “ghosted” me—ceased to communicate sans warning or explanation in what is a disquietingly common phenomenon in modern dating. I’d had a single date …
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I envy those favored souls for whom equanimity comes easily. It’s never been easy for me to be at ease, to take life lightly and let events hang loose, like …
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In theory, we live in a liberated age. People hook up all the time without fanfare. An abundance of apps promise to satisfy every sexual or romantic appetite. You’d expect …
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The pandemic has largely been an unmitigated disaster, except for the successful application of mRNA vaccines. But from the perspective of psychology and political theory, it has been a fascinating …
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My first experience of homophobia was in Denmark. I’d visited a bar and met someone. He and I were walking the mostly deserted streets of Copenhagen’s gay neighborhood late at …
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The veiled plutocracy of the Obama administration has given way to the open corruption, scientific illiteracy, and kakistocracy of the Trump regime. Trump’s neo-fascist followers, in keeping with the time-honored …
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The French philosopher Simone Weil once wrote a bit cryptically that “[w]ithout history there can be no sense of patriotism. We have only to look at the United States to …
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