The legitimizing role of hedonism
Daniel Bell on what replaced the Protestant Ethic
The obligation of prodigality
Daniel Bell on the hedonistic logic of the “new capitalism”
Desire desires desire
Zygmunt Bauman on being a consumer in a consumer society
“. . . improvising a raft after shipwreck . . . ”
Gil Bailie on symptoms and sources of the postmodern self adrift
Discovering inherited metaphysical commitments
Andrew Davison on the importance for theology of becoming more philosophically self-conscious
Questioning the world’s assumptions down to their very roots
John Milbank on the need for a more robust apologetics
Craftsmanship and the infallible judgment of reality
Matthew B. Crawford on the psychic satisfactions of manual work
Dialectic of reverence and rebellion
Matthew B. Crawford on the personal knowledge acquired in apprenticeship
Educational provocations
Steve Talbott on establishing ends for education before selecting means
The flickering of the American mind
Diana Senechal on problems of distraction in education