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A novelist I was listening to on the radio the other day spoke about how difficult it is to portray goodness effectively in fiction. Evil, she said, tends to manifest itself in dramatic strokes, but goodness is usually more subtle, and reveals itself more gently. I thought about this today, because throughout the day, I’ve…

David Rieff is just back from India, and finds America to be sleepwalking its way to a bad place. Excerpt: It is in the manufacturing of an ersatz reality based on lies–or, in our present case, on the eliding of the distinction between lies and truth–that people come to connive in their own misrule. The…

Niall Ferguson says the fiscal black hole that is Greece may not be merely a Eurozone problem. As goes Greece, so go we all. Excerpt: For the world’s biggest economy, the US, the day of reckoning still seems reassuringly remote. The worse things get in the eurozone, the more the US dollar rallies as nervous…

After last night’s bleak post about man’s inhumanity to man, I wanted to counter with a post about something awesome: man’s capacity for forgiveness and healing. On my Templeton-Cambridge seminar last summer, my friend and colleague Amy Sullivan presented a project about forgiveness in Rwanda after the genocide. The story she told about what she…
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