Alex Michael

T he best third places are rec centers and libraries. Modern third places need to offer transformation, not just transaction. While cafes have become laptop farms, gyms and libraries remain sacred spaces for the body and the mind.

After all this, there's a chance that I will sometimes make bad calls. but I have learned from

bitter experience that it's better to occasionally make bad calls than to live in chronic fear and

anxiety of the

possibility

of making bad calls— while not making any good ones.

She notes that rejection of religion has not reigned in the utopia of reason as the New Atheists hoped. All that happened was that the religious instinct was unconsciously transferred to the political realms. Having zealot-level convictions for your political aims without the accompanying humility (believing in a higher power), things tend to get n... See more