“The Existential Significance of Carolina Basketball”

I’ve got a new piece over at Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, & Public Ethics on “The Existential Significance of Carolina Basketball.”

The thesis of the piece is that

Carolina basketball, like good literature, addresses the problem of being human. It is, to borrow a phrase from Joan Didion, “a triumph of being over nothingness.”

You can read the rest here if you’re interested!