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I have plenty of disagreement with George Scialabba’s new book — especially on MacIntyre and Taylor so far, which I hope to write more about — but he is so brilliant on Christopher Lasch that I have to just capture this passage (originally from Only A Voi…

A new NYT piece on the suicide prevention nets that now line the sides of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Veronika Labas on a Vienna hospital with a profound practice of accompaniment: Through a “life protection agency,” as pro-life associations are commonly known in Austria, the young couple learned of a possible alternative.

Robert Inchausti, from his author page at the big online bookseller: I am bourgeois to the core and plebeian beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to great writers and thinkers as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of genius I never possessed.

Alexandra Lange on Mamdani’s (and Adams’s) baby boxes in NYC and their Finnish origins.

Christina Bieber Lake: Raymond Carver is just one of many writers who reveals how contingency punctures our illusions of control and leaves a real opportunity for grace in the process.

Last week I had students in one of my classes watch Sound of Metal, a scripted feature film about hearing loss, cochlear implants, sobriety, embodiment, grasping and limits, and so much else.

John Ganz: We’ll see if this is truly the turning point people seem to think it is.

Bethel McGrew, on the recent Interesting Times interview with Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui: The dystopian horror of a future where “defective” embryos are targeted for destruction should be obvious, though to many it is evidently not.

I’ve been living with Alasdair MacIntyre frequently in my head for the last couple of years.