Two recent articles by our columnists stake out competing views on “ego” — on one’s sense of self and the value and danger of different ways of conceiving of it. We discuss.

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The narrative self encourages a kind of living that keeps one’s eyes on oneself — and this may not be a good, let alone the best, way to live.

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When I couldn’t focus on anything else last week, I found myself turning to Langston Hughes. What started as simple procrastination led me to recreate “Dinner Guest: Me” to fit the latest discussions surrounding the Atlanta shootings and anti-Asian racism.

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The fact vs. opinion distinction isn’t the right one to teach if critical thinking is the goal, and if we want students to learn how to write with the first-person pronoun.

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Five years ago, I met a cute, racially ambiguous guy at a party in Escondido Village. As we were walking to brunch some weeks later, the cutie — who recently became my husband — stopped in his tracks and looked at me in disbelief. I had just asked, smiling: “So what are you, anyway?” (I…

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