No Good Has Come
Marilynne Robinson has called writing a “testimony.” For her work—six…
On Ideal Theories
Biden has not endeavored, thank goodness, to articulate a “vision” of America.
No Good Has ComeIn failing their encounters with the other—here the racial other—white Christians, like Ames and Boughton, fail God. It would mortify their souls, if they could really see it. I think Robinson does see it.
On Ideal TheoriesAs I nodded twelve years ago for Obama, I nodded again on January 20th—though more in relief than in expectation. Biden, unlike Obama, did not promise an end to ideology. But perhaps he signaled the end—or the beginning of the end or, even more likely, a brief cessation—of the “ideology,” as some have called it, of “ideal theory.”
House HuntersTo escape at least occasionally into personal happiness is a matter of bare human necessity. But I’ve noticed that hunting for houses I can’t buy on the internet leaves me less prepared to inhabit reality. Thumbing through these pictures feels not unlike flipping to the last page of a mystery novel, reading ahead to find out how it ends.
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