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A TIME OF REGRET A plague of anxiety afflicts the young today, as one mental health survey after another reveals. But how do we identify the markers of this growing [...]

The great Catholic theologian and philosopher Romano Guardini began his 1963 book The Virtues with reflections on truthfulness, arguing that, among the virtues, it has absolute value. Truthfulness is an [...]

The instructions seem simple enough: Pick one of the prompts (topics) and just write a short essay, no more than 650 words, that 'helps you distinguish yourself in your own [...]

In September 1902, Emil Bloch applied to the US Patent Office for protection of a new method of producing a 'Combined Looking and Display Glass.' He called this glass a [...]

Freud is about something important. While features of our contemporary situation make Freud's view of human nature and culture seem obsolete, they also illuminate what is at stake. Our institutional order is losing its solidity and durability, throwing us back on ourselves and our choices. It is becoming more 'liquid,' to use Zygmunt Bauman's apt metaphor, and fostering a light, depthless way of being and a mutable, non-constraining view of the social world. It is fostering a manner of self-making that involves a detached perspective on our very self and a techne by which we change ourselves through somatic intervention. Freud stood against the tendency to abandon a complex, hermeneutic view of selfhood and the facilitating structures of a cultural order. This was what he was about and what we must recover., Author(s): Joseph E. Davis [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.27755.32, 0000 0000 9136 933X, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, , 3 University Circle, 22903, Charlottesville, VA, USA [...]

OPERATION VARSITY Blues,' the 2019 college admissions scandal, returned to the news earlier this year when a Netflix documentary provided a fresh opportunity to decry abuses of privilege and the [...]