Lost Meaning News Today

The international tribunal obliquely acknowledges a massive assault against human dignity – but it doesn’t go far enough.

The novelist and memoirist, whose new book is “A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home,” was disappointed by D.H. Lawrence: “He had a genius for sense of place, but his travel narratives are marred by petty narcissism. Must have been a dreary travel companion.”

COVID-19, rightly understood, is a crisis of ecology. It is also a crisis of hermeneutics, much of it traceable to the “geologic fault” that Wendell Berry exposes in “the mentality of institutional religion.”

Is the pandemic also a crisis of hermeneutics, a world revealed with respect to how we interpret texts and relate to the world?