Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino

Christianity formed my deepest instincts: it gave me a leftist worldview, an obsession with everyday morality, an understanding of having been born in a compromised situation, and a need to continually investigate my own ideas about what it means to be good.

I crave independence, that I demand and expect it, but never enough, since I was a teenager, to actually be alone.