I know how Sisyphus feels. Over the last 10 years ... There’s nothing for it but to push that damn rock up the mountain, one more time.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being ...

Producing a weekly magazine is a relentless challenge; I have often compared our jobs to the mythic labors of Sisyphus, who was sentenced by angry gods to roll an enormous boulder up a hill only ...