She would never want to live in a trailer. That’s what she said. And repeated it about every five or ten minutes. He needed change, he insisted, and he needed change sooner rather than later. Their debate didn’t bother me a bit. I was drinking a jammy red from a Reidel glass, sinking into a…

In 2004, I wrote an essay that discussed preference Hedonism – “the view that the best Life consists in maximizing the life Of pleasures one would prefer most If one could have experienced all the alternatives.” Its title: “Substantive Good Theories & Neostoic Grief Over Doom-Nation in An Object-Ridden World.” That was about the time…