Prejudice and Place
If by “prejudice” Sandel means “subjective understanding,” then I’m not entirely sure it needs defending.
Innovation Is Not a Style: Considering Starchitecture and Locatecture
Posted on November 4, 2014
While architects like Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas despise the term starchitecture, it continues to bubble up in our celebrity obsessed culture. How does this term complicate how we talk about architecture and how we understand our cities?
Ecce Homo
Posted on November 6, 2014
Image: Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche (detail), c. 1906, by Edvard Munch (1863–1944); Munch-museet, Oslo, Norway; De Agostini
Picture Library/Bridgeman Images.
That Edvard Munch never met Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the great missed encounters of the modern age.
The Hedgehog's Array: November 7, 2014
Posted on November 7, 2014
Feeding the Homeless, and Other Crimes
Erasing every ugly reality from view might make life a little more pleasant for the currently fortunate, but it makes for irresponsible governance and cold-hearted citizens.
Catholic Responses to Poverty
Shuttling between economics and political philosophy, public policy and theology, literature and ethics—the conference paraded the unique strength of the intellectual Catholicism today—no discipline out of bounds, no perspective non grata.
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