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 June on our modern life.

Dreaming of the future and smashing the past leaves us with a rotten present. Noema Magazine

Are we living after reality? If so, who is going to create reality again? The New Atlantis

Why do we feel the need to tear down statues? American Affairs

TS Eliot’s sense of the spiritual disaster was the ground of both his reactionary politics and his transformation of literature. Commonweal

Cornel West on pragmatism, tradition, and wiping the slate clean. Vox

Is it sufficient to understand that the European Union can be traced back to Kant’s faith in cosmopolitan political projects driven by rational interests? The Point

Can Catholics find some way past their division between reactionary ideals and progressive naiveté? Church Life Journal

To understand what is going on in our contemporary moment, we need to start thinking beyond the closed categories of eurocentrism. Modern Intellectual History