When big global events happen — like Russia invading Ukraine — what can we possibly do in our small, ordinary lives to make any difference? Seth and Tsh chat about how they’ve been talking about the news with their kids, how they’ve been processing it for themselves, and what we might learn from the past to forge ahead soberly toward the future.

• Seth: Newsletter | Website


• Tsh: Newsletter | Website


• Pick up a round of drinks & help keep the show going


• Come to Italy with us!


• Bitter & Sweet, Tsh’s new book


• The Bitter & Sweet playlist


• The Weight of Glory, by C.S. Lewis


• World War II in Color on Netflix


• The War by Ken Burns, on PBS


• On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca

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