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 April on our modern life.

We still can’t and we still need to—remember the women who shaped intellectual history. Aeon

Speaking of which, four women transformed ethics and philosophy by returning to the roots of ethics. The Point Magazine

The best modern mind of the twentieth century was a medieval mind. Church Life Journal

Liberal Protestants built the post-war world of civil rights and international institutions. As liberal Protestants disappear, what will disappear with them? Religion & Politics

The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

A brief history of The Stripping of the Altars, a book that transformed medieval historiography. Catholic Herald

First think tanks destroyed conservative intellectual life; now they are coming for the progressives. Tablet

Which is a better description for history: storytelling or science? For Richard Cohen, if you want history to be a serious endeavor, think of its as storytelling. The New Yorker

What does the decline of Nascar tell us about class and culture in the US today? The American Conservative