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Cosmic Interconnectedness, Coincidence, and Kindergarten

by Doug Stowe
Posted on April 2, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; images from Mutter- und Koselieder by Friedrich Froebel, 1844; public domain via Wikipedia.

Perhaps our interconnectedness would be more self-evident if only each of us were more vigilant and watchful for our deep connections with each other.

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The Immanent Grace of Flannery O’Connor

by Ed Simon
Posted on March 25, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/shanesabin/iStock.

O’Connor posits a universe in which we are mostly fallen but not lost to the possibility of salvation.

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Impossible Loves, Then and Now

by Andrew Stark
Posted on March 11, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Jorm Sangsorn, iStock.

Those of us who remain tethered to reality do not require our lovers to pretend to be a succession of role-playing fantasy lovers.

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Beyond Elon

by Mark Edmundson
Posted on March 4, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration/Anastasia Iunosheva/iStock.

The culture at large has overrated Smart.

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The New Yorker and the American Voice

by Ed Simon
Posted on February 24, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: THR illustration; Eustace Tilley by Rea Irvin.

The New Yorker is responsible for the twentieth-century’s American high-brow voice.

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All the Distant Mirrors

by Alan Jacobs
Posted on February 18, 2025 in THR Web Features
Image: Dimmis Vart via Unsplash.

Compartmentalization is better than the production of work that is half-hearted.

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