In the new year, I’m thinking a lot about wisdom—what it is, where we can find it, how we can cultivate and share it with each other. Mine is not a new or solitary pursuit. Humanity has been pondering the source and credibility of wisdom from ancient times. But in our current moment, a deliberate...
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“Never say that a soldier does not know the cost of war.” As the story comes to its sober conclusion, this is the response of the British army officer to the cabinet secretary who is bitterly critical of the decision-making at the heart of the film, “Eye in the Sky.” Protesting loudly, she is sure...
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As I left Pittsburgh yesterday, I decided to leave slowly, lingering through some of its neighborhoods on my way back to Virginia– so I got off the parkway, and drove through Oakland one more time, stopping near the Cathedral of Learning. For several years I worked and studied here, entering into the PhD years of...
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