The Measure of Our Freedom
On Responsibility and the Common Good It is an odd truth of life that freedom, which we often picture as…
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The Long Horizon
On Endurance and the Shape of a Free Life I have long suspected that freedom is not best measured in…
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The Freedom to Belong
On the Paradox of Roots and Wings I have come to suspect that the last, and perhaps most difficult, freedom…
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The Strength to Let Be
On Restraint and Inner Liberty I have long suspected that one of the rarest, and most underrated, freedoms is the…
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Laughter in the Public Square
On the Freedom to Be Silly A healthy society must be able to laugh at itself. Not merely at its…
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The Patience of the Seasons
There is a kind of wisdom that only the seasons know. No amount of technology, willpower, or cleverness can persuade…
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The Patience of Slow Time
We moderns are not particularly patient. The world around us insists that everything should happen now, or better yet, yesterday.…
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The Liturgy of the Ordinary
There is, I think, a certain nobility in the way we queue for coffee. Consider it: strangers rising with the…
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The Liberty of Liturgy
On Rituals That Set Us Free There is a particular kind of freedom that comes only with repetition. It’s not…
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Tea and Tolerance
On living with the people we disagree with There are few things in life more civilised,or more spiritually instructive,than the…