Genius, hubris, tragedy
Thoughts on Oppenheimer, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki on the anniversary of the bombing.
All posts tagged: Recommended Readings
A revelatory journey to find the nation’s soul
A meditation on the work to be done to gain a more honest rendering of the country.
Destroying what is beautiful
The second in Donna Leon’s long-running Commissario Guio Brunetti mystery series.
If this was lost, let us all be lost always
For poet Mary Oliver, attention is the beginning of devotion.
Legitimacy, once lost, is hard to reclaim
Our extremist Supreme Court is a train wreck fifty years in the making.
Indigenous perspectives
Indigenous voices provide important perspectives; counter histories that relay new ideas and concepts.
The tyranny of binary choice
Think expansively about the type of world we want instead of just bickering over the directions.
The dark underworld of the soul
Come and explore a modern, sexy, complex crime novel by a Norwegian master of the genre.
Acknowledging the difficulties
Understanding, acknowledging, and wrestling with paradox is a key to our growth as human beings.
Family, myth, and identity
A young Native American writer’s powerful push against the feeling of extinction happening in real time.
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