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 August 2024 on our modern life.

“A hope that works“: pessimism in Augustine Public Discourse

“Should we put our highest hopes in changing the internet or in changing ourselves?” Commonweal

Complex and fun ways of imaging historical time in elementary schooling Lost Tools of Learning

The existential limits of A.I. art The New Yorker

Photography and the “sale” of modernism Hyperallergic

The permanence of uncertainty LitHub

A return to ignorance Church Life Journal