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 February 2024 on our modern life.

Marilynne Robinson on the origins of human forgiveness Commonweal

Montaigne on death The Marginalian

“'Sacred Modernity': an ode to post-war European churches” Wallpaper

John Betz on “Analogical Anthropology” Church Life Journal

Modern genealogy illuminates a half-century mystery NPR

Announcing the 2024 Modernist Studies Association Conference Johns Hopkins University

“Old-Time Modernity: Cycladic Art at the Met“ The New York Times

The Education of Things: “Children’s education included 'mechanical literacy' in the industrial age” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A modernity of influencers The Hedgehog Review