Tag: Modernity
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Power and the Modern Age
I find myself reading a lot of diagnoses of the modern world-picture.1 There are perhaps too many of these, they all generally arrive at the same conclusions, of the sort we’ve recently explored in Schumacher, and you wish they said more about the cure than the disease.2 In any case, I tend to believe that…
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Progress in the Little World
Giovannino Guareschi’s Don Camillo stories are delightful little tales set in the “little world” of an Italian town in the Po valley in the years immediately after World War II. What makes them wonderful is their pure humanity, the sheer warmth of the oft-contentious between Don Camillo, his eternal rival, the communist mayor Peppone, and…
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Thoughts (borrowed) while Riding the Red Line at Rush Hour
Further thoughts, looking down on Michigan Avenue from the 12th floor:
Dan Yingst 