Daniel Dashnaw

When the World Feels Too Much: Oscillanguish, Marriage, and the Emotional Weather of Our Time (opens in new tab)

You wake up optimistic about the future. Artificial intelligence is diagnosing illnesses earlier than ever before. Scientific breakthroughs are occurring at breathtaking speed. Your granddaughter is considering careers that did not exist twenty years ago. Humanity, for all its absurdity and stubbornness, remains astonishingly inventive. By lunchtime, you've read about war, political dysfunction, economic instability, climate disasters, and another round of layoffs. By dinner, you've encounter...

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