This post was written by Drew Swasey, a Humanities Center student fellow. On one of my final days in Sweden, I found myself standing on a small, rickety pier facing the Baltic Sea. To my left was my companion; to my right, a lifebuoy on a post. Staring out at the black water felt …
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