Unclear why it took me this long to read Thomas Cahill. That irreplaceable experience of seeing and hearing a lively intelligence on the page.
“Floating above the graphics are abstract sleeping babies, well swaddled and capped. A proprietary onesie and hat declare, “NYC loves me.” sarahendren.com/2025/12/0…
If, like me, you’re still enjoying homages to Alisdair MacIntyre and his long strange career, let me recommend this fine essay by Notre Dame’s Michael Baxter.
Christina Bieber Lake: “It is too facile to say that a reader learns a ‘moral’ by reading a story. What a reader learns is how to think about contingency when it appears in his or her own life…‘one learns it by guidance rather than by formula.’”
Culminating text with oral exams planned in my criticism class for architecture graduate students. We got liftoff as a group this term — a true seminar community. I’ll miss them.
An exchange with a student about being convinced.
I am finally teaching Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society today. Wow — so much to tackle. My students are all in pre-professional design programs, and few have had any exposure to philosophy. If you teach this book and have recommendations for structuring conversation, I’d be happy to hear them.
Here’s a bit of Skylark Ensemble’s Rachmaninoff Vespers at my parish last spring. I’m in the third row, trying to keep it together in the presence of such overwhelming beauty. This clip doesn’t quite show the astonishing basso profundo guys at full blast, but you can get a taste anyway.