cogitate on

This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are joined by Wesley Morris, critic at large for The New York Times and co-host of the Still Processing podcast, to cogitate on Conundrums 2023.

A pack of smokes may seem like an odd place to find inspiration, but the bar is low in a country where we have to cogitate on how to best avoid being shot by a stranger for no reason.

But it was useless to try to cogitate on this thing.

Or we can cogitate on terrestrial ruin, while touching ash from the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volcano that grounded so many flights.

“You don’t have to cogitate on material.”