The question for Silence is not whether another world exists but how such a recognition should affect our lives here.
We need romantic amplitude of experience lest life become nothing more than King Lear and the Yankees winning all the time.
For the moment, according to Thomas Edsall, the former sufferers of what might be called the Great White Depression are feeling "elated." What might this mean?
Hope for our troubled times.
The Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins is under threat.
We have to give ourselves—individually and collectively—to the work of re-imagining the meaning of our nation.