Sublime

Taylor. He’s careful throughout to avoid asking about the truth of the ideas he discusses. That is appropriate as his task is descriptive and explanatory.

The key is to know where we are, and whose we are, and where we’re headed, and not be surprised by the burdens of the road.

Many people in the West today are not comfortable talking in terms like good or evil. In our increasingly secular societies, many people seem to think that such words are part of the past—too reductive an idea for our far more subtle and understanding times. We are even used to the notion that criminals in our society who do terrible things must

The priority of modern politics is economic growth. But humanity’s struggle towards material security will only be worthwhile if we understand and find ways to attenuate the psychological afflictions that appear to continue into, and are sometimes directly fostered by, conditions of abundance. The problems of the thirty or so rich countries