The Joyful Uselessness of Ivan Illich: Reply to Scialabba | Simon Ravenscroft

Mar 31, 2017 In his essay for The Baffler, George Scialabba does a fine job summarizing Ivan Illich’s most famous period of writing, from 1971 to 1982. He foregrounds the Roman Catholic priest and philosopher’s peculiarity as a leftist intellectual who was resolutely opposed to most “progressive” political solutions, on the grounds that they amounted…

Good News For Religious Pluralism….Sort of | Mara Willard

March 24, 2017 When your democratic republic and unchecked global, political, and ecological trends feel as though they’re hurtling in chaos toward the sun, it’s nice to receive good news. A recent study by the Pew Research Center on Religion and Public life puts that good news right up in the title, “Americans Express Increasingly…

Patience, Impatience, and Political Life Today | Paul Dafydd Jones

March 15, 2017 To say that 2016 was a politically tumultuous year is, at this point, to state the blindingly obvious. Sooner or later, my home country (the United Kingdom) will abandon the European Union, a multistate organization that helped maintain peace in a continent that has made a habit of war. Meanwhile, the country…