Recovery of Roots
By Tessa Carman. Simone Weil recognized “the need for roots”; Czeslaw Milosz named our age as one of homelessness. Both remind us that our work is always rooted in who we are.
By Tessa Carman. Simone Weil recognized “the need for roots”; Czeslaw Milosz named our age as one of homelessness. Both remind us that our work is always rooted in who we are.
Andrei Platonov’s experimental apocalyptic novel about the collectivization of the Soviet countryside should remind readers of today of what can happen when social reform, no matter how needed, takes precedence over people.
A Midwesterner reviews Kwame Dawes’s Nebraska alongside Phil Christman’s Midwest Futures.
"An Illumination" by Joshua Jones
Unlike too many books that attempt to explicate Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger's allows for both the spiritual and the intellectual aspects of humankind by framing faith through mystery.
Though entertaining and even more-or-less believable, American Hustle’s host of con-men fail to work through their own tricks and traps to actual self-transformation.
Constant surveillance by an impersonal power preserves a modern society more autonomous and secretive than any that came before.
Allowing politics to drive strategy confuses the nation’s passions with its interests. A return to principles is in order.
The organization and subject matter of LACMA's exhibition on home points to the true heart of hospitality and of what it means not to have a place in the world.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s award-winning film examines life in a corrupt and amoral society—but not without a small example of the redeeming practice of virtue.
A minute's reflection reveals a wild and diverse array of forces that influence our lives, none of which are reducible simply to parliamentary procedure.
Karl Polanyi’s account of the rise of economic liberalism, written in the midst of the Second World War, provides a compelling explanation for the rise of fascism and the conflicts of the 19th century but lacks a sufficient solution to the problem of the all-consuming market.