The School of Anxiety
Anxiety teaches nothing but possibility, but I, at least, am a finite being.
Radical Hope Amid Catastrophe
by
Vafa Ghazavi
Posted on April 8, 2020
Image: Part of the July 2017 Christian Dior exhibit at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. (Joe deSousa via Wikimedia Commons.)
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What happens to a culture—a social order—and the beliefs that sustain it, in the face of a microscopic enemy that has little regard for borders, power, class, or celebrity?
Unveiling Our New Modernity
Posted on April 7, 2020
Image: Statue of Gregory of Tours at the Église de la Madeleine. (GO69 via Wikimedia Commons.)
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Our world is increasingly discontinuous with the twentieth century.
The Advantages of Disadvantages
Posted on April 6, 2020
Image: Wenceslas Square in Prague, March 2020. (Svenkaj via Wikimedia Commons.)
People should always be glad when something derails us from our routine, and this is truly a massive derailment, a derailment into peace.
Weird Tales
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 2, 2020
Ghost stories and other tales of horror concern unpredictable, sometimes ambiguous or indescribable, forces that display hostility or at best indifference to us.
On Tele-teaching
Any channel through which we can still communicate is good. It’s just not enough.