Morning Person
This fall marks Tommy Tate’s twentieth year as a crossing guard for the city of Washington, DC.
Eros Further Unbound: An Exchange
Debating the stakes of the “New Puritanism”
Framing the World: The Indispensable Genre
by
Ed Simon
Posted on August 14, 2024
Image: Edmund Dulac’s 1911 illustration of Scheherazade; Shutterstock.
Scheherazade’s story is about stories themselves.
Driving While Female
Is the car our most gendered technology?
Our Very Own Lake Como Moment
Posted on July 25, 2024
Image: Lake Como by Ellena McGuinness via Unsplash.
As he roamed the edges of Lake Como, Romano Guardini foresaw the birth of a new world.
Reading as Moral Formation
by
Derek King
Posted on July 18, 2024
Image: Credit: THR illustration; Iris Murdoch, 1957, by Ida Kar; C.S. Lewis, 1951, Alamy; background—Patrick Tomasso via Unsplash.
Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.