Pain and grief are among our most private, isolating experiences.
The author’s interpretive framework truncates the narrative by forcing her to see thick cultural issues only through the lens of social class.
Poverty research has become caught up in a paradox of its own making—of diminishing insight into the problem of poverty amid more data about the poor.
A human person is a historical being, in whom the past remains immanent in the present, and whom the wear and tear of time enhances rather than diminishes.
A grotesque and caricatured version of Simone Weil undermines an otherwise good book.