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 Voice):
A new NYT piece on the suicide prevention nets that now line the sides of the Golden Gate Bridge. I hope the folks framing assisted suicide as a simple matter of autonomous choice take note:
Veronika Labas on a Vienna hospital with a profound practice of accompaniment:
Robert Inchausti, from his author page at the big online bookseller:
Alexandra Lange on Mamdani’s (and Adams’s) baby boxes in NYC and their Finnish origins. A long overdue idea in the US: The outside of the NYC Baby Boxes — the ones spearheaded by Adams’s City Hall — features a custom graphic of the cityscape, including brownstones, tenements, elevator buildings and the distinctive spires of the Chrysler Building and One World Trade. Same for the many-pocketed…
Christina Bieber Lake:
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. It’s beautifully written and performed, and it followed readings that included Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society.
John Ganz:
Bethel McGrew, on the recent Interesting Times interview with Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui:
I’ve been living with Alasdair MacIntyre frequently in my head for the last couple of years. This recent lecture explores some of what’s been on my mind. I’m still making sense of the way my mind changed in mid-life, and I find it reassuring that MacIntyre also had several big intellectual and religious conversions (and, also like me, no PhD!). I’ll be trying to write more about him in coming…