On a recent episode of The Howard Stern Show, the “shock-jock” host asked his guest, music legend Paul Simon, a mix of questions about music, life, art, and anything else that came to mind. Stern, as you may know, rose to fame with his exaltation of immorality and shameless self-adulation. At the very end of...
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“The Devil laughs because God’s world seems senseless to him; the angels laugh with joy because everything in God’s world has meaning.” Milan Kundera watched the world of Central Europe fall under the weight of totalitarianism, over most of a century being crushed, first by the Nazis and then the Communists, with remarkably artful eyes...
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Proximate justice, one more time. I walked into a familiar classroom this morning, one where I spent many hours over many years. And as I prepared to begin, I saw an essay I had written some years ago, “Making Peace with Proximate Justice” on the desks in the room filled with students from all over...
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