Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. This month marked the release of Season 2 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast, which brings many of these pathways to light. Here are some additional routes we found in November 2023 on our modern life.

Genealogy of the empty tomb. Church Life Journal

Perpendicular Gothic and eco-modernity: solar panels top the world’s largest fan vault ceiling. BBC

China and the West: on global order and universal values. Drum Tower

“Have We Become Gods?” on Isabella Burton’s new book. Commonweal

Padre Pio versus “The New Agnosticism.” First Things

"There is more time between Göbekli Tepe and Sumer than between Sumer and today”: Why Civilization Is Older than We Thought  Palladium Magazine

Has Xi circled back to the Mao era? And what can we learn from six decades of China writings? China Books Review

"I humbly submit that, despite all our progress, the average human today understands the things-falling-down problem only a tiny bit better than the earliest humans did." Experimental History

Foucault’s theses about psychosis get a new look by clinicians. Pacific Standard

An online companion to the new museum exhibition: Seeing Race before Race: A Closer Look. The Newberry Library

Reconsiderations of the postcard as art. The Paris Review