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Francis O’Gorman

  • Charley Locke

    Hakuna Matata, Shakespeare

    Shakespeare may have felt anxiety, but he was no worrier. More from The Economist on how the word entered our lexicon, in a review of Worrying by Francis O’Gorman. O’Gorman, who traces the word’s rise through literary modernism’s focus on…

  • Lyz Lenz

    A Culture of Chronic Worry

    So: Ideological freedom may have led us to worry, but the new ideology of individual liberty leads us right back to a conception of choice that denies the nature of human suffering. The mentally ill do not choose their agonies.…