None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourse…

- Thomas L. Dumm

Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimensio…

- Thomas L. Dumm

In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a b…

- Thomas L. Dumm

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labele…

- Thomas L. Dumm

Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source…

- Thomas L. Dumm

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

- Thomas L. Dumm

One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the …

- Thomas L. Dumm

There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This wa…

- Thomas L. Dumm

I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation pos…

- Thomas L. Dumm