Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in September on our modern life.

Think that all Enlightenment thinkers were deists or atheists? Well then you better check out Fr. Ludovico Muratori. Church Life Journal

Medieval Spain comes Manhattan. The New Criterion

An anarchist writes a history of the world. The Nation

Did modernity begin with the book index? London Review of Books

Freedom has a genealogy, and we might lose it if we don’t get it right. Church Life Journal

When a medieval poem meets a 21st Century film, they are going to need to be some adaptations. First Things

Western ideas aren’t defunct; they have just gone global. That is not such good news. The New Statesman

Think authoritarians are only on the right? Well, that mistake probably only happens if you have PhD. The Atlantic