The unlikely route to joy involves entering the stories of suffering that have marked our lives.

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. How to avoid screwing up Thanksgiving: Cooking dinner on Thanksgiving is pressure enough without a calamity derailing the affair. Here are a few Turkey Day disasters, and how you can […]

Examining the frontier myth in American culture, Peterson traces her own life’s movement from wanderlust to stability.

“For rhythm and harmony penetrate deeply into the mind and have a most powerful effect on it, and if education is good, bring balance and fairness, if it is bad, the reverse.” – Plato “It is part of the business of the critic to preserve tradition – where a good tradition exists. It is part […]

Until the shocks to the world system in the past decade following the turn of the millennium  – e.g., the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the global financial collapse of 2008 – the “postmodern era” was supposed to be a kind of immense carnival of peoples reveling in a new global prosperity, […]

“As we contemplate the world converted into a huge machine and managed by engineers, we gradually grow aware of its lack of meaning, and of its emptiness of human value; the soul is stifled in this glorification of mechanical efficiency.  And then we begin to feel the weakness of such a creed when confronted by […]

The introduction of Karl Barth into the Zizek/Milbank debate serves as the radicalization of the christological account of the monstrosity of Christ, properly accounting for the doctrinal and anthropological implications of the person of Jesus.

In the past few months I have started to ponder what increasingly strikes me as an emergent crisis of our own discourse as postmodern thinkers. What I have to say is probably going to offend a lot of people, but hopefully it will be taken as a genial offense, i.e., one that provokes soul-searching and […]

MORE THAN A FEW filmmakers have plotted a career path or artistic journey from documentary to fictional cinema. For some, it’s a fairly straight path. Krzysztof Kieślowski shot a doc on the Polish court system, where he met a lawyer who became his screenwriter and the rest was less history than art. Other journeys are […]