Existential dread refers to our deep fear that life is meaningless. The only certain thing is that one day we will die. And we will die alone. This sense of existential dread can be triggered by a ...

I’m pacing the terminal of a Jamaican airport when a Caribbean cover of Alanis Morissette's Ironic buzzes in the background. It sends me into a tailspin: “He waited his whole damn life to take that ...