(By Annie Holmquist. Republished from Intellectual Takeout.) I was at a wedding several weeks ago when I ran into a young man I hadn’t seen for a while. Naturally, I asked what he was up to. Was he finished with…
Author: Brad Shorr
People think anybody can write, until they have to write something. With so many things in the world that suck, it’s astounding we’ve chosen to focus on straws. In the online world, we prioritize convenience over security, and sharing over…
An Economics of Justice & Charity, subtitled Catholic Social Teaching, Its Development and Contemporary Relevance, does something quite remarkable: It makes an exceedingly complicated topic understandable to the average reader. Thomas Storck traces the modern development of economic aspects of…
I’ve always wanted to be in cahoots with somebody. I used to take the path of least resistance, but it was too exhausting. If you could devote your life to the study of one subject, what would it be? There…
I always wondered how Franz Kafka got his story ideas. Now I know he must have owned an LG refrigerator and tried to get it repaired. I saw some guy in a uniform at the health club carrying an enormous…