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 January on our modern life.

You know who was really angry about monuments to the Confederates? Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Angry Staff Officer 

Duns Scotus is wholly to blame for modernity and other strange stories of decline. The Public Discourse

Most of what you think about Prohibition is wrong, starting with the location of Prohibition. The Atlantic

The end of history has finally ended. So now can we begin again? First Things 

Moderns can’t understand miracles. Maybe postmoderns can? Church Life Journal 

Premodern tech you can still enjoy. “Nowadays, you could also store hot water in a vacuum flask and then pour it into a hot water bottle hours later.” Low Tech Magazine

We have indexes and search engines because of a hard-working medieval friar. Australian Broadcasting Company

Human History Gets a Rewrite: A brilliant new account upends bedrock assumptions about 30,000 years of change. The Atlantic

“Feminism, critical race theory, intersectionality: these were not for Liu the signposts of moral progress, but more like road spikes to be avoided on China’s own path to modernity.” SupChina