Lockdown Nostalgia
The return to normalcy will be long, and we might even change our mind along the way.
The Dance of the Porcupines
Posted on April 21, 2020
Image: Detail from Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. (Via Wikimedia Commons.)
There is a risk that we will compensate for the current sense of crisis and isolation with too much closeness.
Wearing a Mask in France Would Be a Revolution
Posted on April 17, 2020
Image: COVID-19 mask, French style, March 2020; François Escriva via flickr.
In France, wearing a COVID-19 mask will mean a real revolution in norms governing behavior in its public space.
Pruning the Mind During a Crisis
Why should anyone focus on the life of the mind when individual and societal survival is threatened?
Firmness
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on April 15, 2020
Image: Paperback cover illustration of Lew Archer by Mitchell Hooks.
Time to adopt a new hero: Lew Archer, private detective.
A Painter Crawling toward God
Posted on April 14, 2020
Image: Pietà, 1575–1576, by Titian (1490–1576); Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice; Wikipedia.
A deeply personal encounter with the plague.