Think it feels like the end of the world? Try reading a self-help column | Jill Filipovic
A chance to spectate on strangers’ intimate lives beats seeking release from the doom and anxiety caused by impending fascism
by Jill Filipovic
Sep 13, 2018
4 minutes
There is nothing on the internet I love more than a good advice column. I’m an hour late to writing this piece because, in thinking about writing a column about advice columns, I got distracted and clicked through to read a few of my regulars. (Today alone: Heather Havrilesky’s Dear Polly, Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s Dear Prudence, Carvell Wallace and Nicole Cliffe’s Care and Feeding; on a regular basis, Cheryl Strayed’s The Sweet Spot, Alison Green’s Ask a Manager, Lori Gottlieb’s Ask a Therapist, Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Ethicist, Philip Galanes’s Social Q’s, and my Chani Nichols horoscope for good measure. Sometimes I’ll throw in an Ask Amy
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