Tag: health

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.

Whenever we see such an avoidance of questions like these, we are witnessing someone protecting an ideological dream world.

To whatever extent I imposed a narrative on experience, it was only because experience first imposed it upon me.

Beneath these critiques of the American medical system and the biological mysteries of the human body throbs a more existential question: How does one deal with suffering? These are some of the most moving parts of Douthat’s book. He finds himself literally prostrate before the altar seeking some meaning in his suffering.

Human stories, centered around human persons in pursuit of wisdom, are the roots from which communities grow. We can be sure, by the sweat on the brows of each person in the McGinley family, that this connection between the land and community is no mere metaphor.

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.

The listlessness of modern death is that you might not even get a chance to show courage before you forget who you are.