LACMA

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.

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Graduation

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.

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The Great Transformation

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.

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Piers Plowman

Though on the surface confusing and fragmented, William Langland's poem expose in both theme and form the struggles that Christians confronted in his own time--and still do in our own.

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