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Is Life a Game?

By Joshua Rothman · The New Yorker · January 2026

#18 in Philosophy

Is Life a Game?

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"Joshua Rothman on “The Score,” in which the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that play is the meaning of life."

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