In Need of Repair
Fall 2024 / Volume 26 / No. 3

In Need of Repair

At the bottom of each of our system dysfunctions is a distinctive cultural disorder emerging from the many pressures of our rapidly modernizing world.

Table of Contents

Notes & Comments

Supply Chain Sublime

Richard Hughes Gibson

Undertaking Poetry

Jonathan Clarke

The Story of Advice

Alexander Stern

Thematic: In Need of Repair

Culture Wars: The Endgame

James Davison Hunter

The Age of the Average

Olivier Zunz

All the Little Data

Nicholas Carr

The Pathologies of Precision Medicine

Paul Scherz

Toward a New Politics of Care

Elias Crim

The Scandal of America’s Prisons

Leann Davis Alspaugh and John J. Lennon

The Humor Is Almost Lost on Us

Martha Bayles

Philanthropy by the Numbers

Aaron Horvath

The Vast Dechurching and the Paradox of Christianity’s Decline

Firmin DeBrabander

Essays

The Way We Don’t Live Now

David K. Anderson

Hive Mind

Matthew J. Milliner

Wisdom and Pain

Ronald W. Dworkin

Book Reviews

Auden’s Island

Alan Jacobs

Only Connect

Eugene McCarraher

The Whistleblower’s Gamble

Allen M. Hornblum

Don’t Worry, Have Babies

Rita Koganzon

History Bedeviled

Paul Nedelisky

Left Behind

John M. Owen IV

Signifiers

Real Time

Wilfred M. McClay

From the Editor

From the Editor

Jay Tolson