Reviewing the books I read this last year it became clear that, consciously or not, they adventured both inwardly and outwardly, endeavoring to make sense of my own values, morals and mores in a landscape of social tumult and civic degradation. Perhaps, as books...
All around us, we are being persuaded, nudged and influenced towards some commercial end. While not the film They Live’s conspiracy of aliens using mass media to control human social affairs through subliminal images, we are, nonetheless, surrounded by messaging...
I was struck by David Brooks’ comments in his New York Times Op-Ed piece, The Service Patch, lamenting the utilitarian vocabulary that seems not just to describe our choices of profession and personal undertakings but to constrain those choices. Brooks says, “Many...
