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Together, the concurrent exhibitions Only The Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s and The Shape of Time, Korean Art After 1989 offer a glimpse of the breathtakingly rapid achievement of a people, built on reservoirs of memory and imagination, optimism, extraordinary resilience, but also on tragedy.
Article: Pope Francis on the Climate Crisis (REVIEW ESSAY) - In 2015, Pope Francis (born in 1936; elected pope in 2013) emerged as a towering public intellectual on the world stage with his widely read eco-encyclical titled Laudato Si' (meaning 'Praise Be to You'). On October 4, 2023, the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi (c.1181-1226), Pope Francis renewed his concerns about the climate crisis in his terse new apostolic exhortation titled Laudate Deum ('Praise God').
Article: Joseph Henrich's Acronym WEIRD (Review Essay) - In Daniel Bergner's recent op-ed commentary in the New York Times (dated June 2, 2023), he uses the technical term anosognosia from the field of mental health. But I want o use the term metaphorically here to suggest how our distinctively Western vowelized phonetic alphabetic literacy may be preventing us from critically examining the work of Walter J. Ong, Eric A. Havelock, Jack Goody, and now Joseph Henrich in his 2020 book.
Over his long career, Noel Kingsbury has written more than 25 books on plants and gardens, from how-to guides to cultural studies, such as his newest, “The Story of Flowers: And How They Changed the Way We Live.”
Moral courage (and the word ‘like’) can help us grapple with uncertainty.