Sightings Articles
Is This America?
A distinction may bring some clarity to disagreements about the meaning of the Capitol riots...
February 1, 2021
Religion and Isolation in The Mandalorian
Baby Yoda, helmets, and a mysterious tradition serve as a lens for understanding our current state of estrangement....
December 7, 2020
The Road to Hell: Dantes Inferno and the Undermining of Trust
A late-medieval view of institutional sin...
November 2, 2020
The Difference between Heroes and Martyrs
When we memorialize victims of police violence, their past actions are irrelevant...
October 5, 2020
Imagining History without Heroes and Villains
What the Hebrew Bible can teach Americans about reckoning with the fallenness of our nation's founders...
September 14, 2020
Asking the Right Questions about Riots
Contemplating the questions we should and shouldn't be asking about riots by looking to the example of Martin Luther King Jr. ...
June 4, 2020
We Need Fewer Heroes
Exploring the tension between our praise of everyday heroes and the social instability that necessitates them...
May 8, 2020
The Strange War on COVID-19
William James and the potential benefits of “war” analogies for fighting COVID-19
April 9, 2020
Film Resurrections and the Denial of Death
Exploring the resurrection trope in American cinema and what it reveals about us...