Sightings Articles
Fahrenheit 451 Redux: Free Thinking in the Present?
Enough with champions of the right and the left, the book burners and those of cancel culture: the present moment calls for a few more firemen like Ray Bradbury....
November 18, 2021
On Social Dissolution: Lost Threads and Forgotten Dogmas
From passing conversations on the street to extended news commentaries on air and online, it is hard to miss the pervasive sense of social breakdown....
September 23, 2021
A Year to Mask and Unmask
What the pandemic has concealed and revealed about the conditions of possibility for our society...
June 28, 2021
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: On National Self-Understanding
Can we overcome our collective illusions about ourselves?...
May 24, 2021
Justice and the Devil in America
A controversy around the symbolisms of evil conceals the hardening of America's heart...
April 26, 2021
Dying in America
The notion of the sublime can help us understand the magnitude of the pandemic's toll – and pushes us to rethink our approach to death....
March 22, 2021
Time in a Prophetic Frame
Many voices in America today claim the mantle of prophecy; the differences between them are illuminating...
February 22, 2021
We Hold These Truths
An Augustinian meditation on the communal dispositions required for democracy...
January 25, 2021
Party On, America?
The concept of loyalty offers hope for our democracy—but only a loyalty that transcends party spirit...
November 23, 2020
The Soul of the Nation?
A campaign slogan raises interesting questions about what, exactly, we're all fighting for...