The predominant mood in the West at the moment seems to be apocalypse — a sense of a metaphysical and anthropological ending. It’s hard to be grateful at such a moment. Motorcycle mechanic turned globally renowned philosopher Matthew B Crawford, author of The Case for Working with your Hands, The World beyond your Head, and Why we Drive, presents new thinking on how we might remind ourselves that the cosmos is fundamentally on our side.

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