The Disenchantment of Baseball
The strike zone is not reducible to the simple rectangle displayed on TV broadcasts.
Liberal Society Isn’t for Everyone
Our society needs a certain kind of person and our society shapes a certain kind of person. How to align the two?
Chatbots and the Divine
Posted on October 15, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Shutterstock.
We get nowhere near knowing, much less loving, another person through impersonal means.
Simone Weil Against Distraction
by
April Owens
Posted on October 22, 2025
in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration: Simone Weil, Ewa Klos, Agence Opale/Alamy; background: Shutterstock.
For Simone Weil, attention was akin to prayer.