Category: Cultural Commentary

Tragic Virtue Ecologies

But perhaps individual virtue-modeling (what we used the call “the character question” in American politics) is not the only question. What if we also ask

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True Forms

Part of my fascination, I suppose, is that we are talking about a face here. The article nicely rehearses the significance of the human face

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The Privilege of an Inner Life

I’ve always understood that my education, beginning with my mother’s early tutelage, was a privilege. This week my gratitude—and perspective—deepened significantly as I read, along

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