The Nauseous Anxiety We’ve Been Feeling Over The Election Is A Good Thing (If You’re A Sartrean)

Simon Critchley, on the connection between the “Brexistential dread” in his homeland and the fear and loathing on this side of the Atlantic: “The lesson of existentialism is that the nausea that we feel is actually the emergence of a genuine, lived sense of our freedom. Anxiety is the motor that drives the engine of freedom.”