All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it's quite new. In…

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