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  • Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels

    Three Dangerous Philosophical Novels1

    “I choose novels that let me turn my brain off,” a student confessed to me. My immediate response was to chastise her, “You did not receive a brain so that it could be turned off.” However, that evening I found myself streaming an old sitcom episode while washing dishes instead of listening to the dozen

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  • 10 Books You Need to Read Before Graduation

    10 Books You Need to Read Before Graduation0

    “If you don’t read good books, you will read bad ones,” C. S. Lewis writes. We may need to update Lewis’s claim for the twenty-first-century reader, for those who do not read good books will not necessarily read bad ones, but may—in not knowing why or what they should read—substitute books entirely with hours of

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  • How Flannery O’Connor Can Heal Our Fractured Politics

    How Flannery O’Connor Can Heal Our Fractured Politics0

    In 2014, I spoke at the American Embassy in Prague at a symposium on the civil rights movement in America. I made the mistake of offering Flannery O’Connor’s story “Everything that Rises Must Converge” as a reminder that we are all to blame for the mess we’re in. O’Connor says of her own story, “I

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