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Get Serious: About Suffering
Get Serious: About Suffering
George MacKay as Lance Corporal Will Schofield in the WWI drama 1917. (Alamy)
The war on pain has not only robbed us of resilience. It has sold us a mirage that is making us miserable.
By Katherine Boyle
03.04.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Get Serious: About Suffering

Get Serious is a regular series by Katherine Boyle. Don’t miss the essay that kicked it off, The Case for American Seriousness, or her last column, Get Serious: About Time.

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Katherine Boyle

Katherine Boyle is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. She is the co-founder of the American Dynamism practice, which invests in companies building to support the national interest.

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