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Memory, Modernity, and the Latinization of the Vietnamese Voice
Observations on the Northern Road Walking through the wide, tree-lined boulevards of Hanoi, one encounters a society moving with calm, unmistakable velocity. At street…
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The Pragmatist in Rubber Sandals
The Red River Behind Us Our second morning in Vietnam begins with the hum of a tour coach making its deliberate way out of…
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The Sunk Costs of Piety
The Words in the Sanctuary: An Encounter with the Text The rhythm of the liturgy creates a particular kind of silence, a space where…
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Finding Meaning in the Triad of Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
The Enclosure of Pure Rules In 1980, John Searle introduced a thought experiment that remains an enduring touchstone in the philosophy of mind. He…
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The Price of Complexity
The Parlor and the Street: The Fracture in the Modern Narrative In contemporary public discourse, few shifts in perspective have been as swift or…
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The Boundary of Care
A Life That Opens a Larger Question A video about the life of Elliot Page left me with a question that reached beyond the…
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Before We Have to Prove Ourselves
The Child Behind the Achievement A Mainichi newspaper story about a fourth-grade girl passing Eiken Grade 1 invites an immediate response: admiration. Eiken is…
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The Ego’s Last Possession
The Will That Tries to Surrender Many years ago, I encountered a short piece by Meister Eckhart entitled “On True Obedience.” Eckhart was a…
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The Universe in the Language of Information
The Reality of What Emerges A warm cup rests between our hands. We recognize its temperature before we give it a number. The warmth…
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The Intelligence We Cannot Imagine
Two Puddles Under the Same Sky After rain, a shallow pool of water remains in a backyard in Japan. Someone walking past might notice…
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What Are We Growing Toward?
The Tiredness That Rest Does Not Reach There are evenings when we close the computer and wonder why we feel so exhausted. We have…
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When Knowledge Turns the Neighbor into an Enemy
A Sentence Heard at Mass On Sunday, my wife and I attended Mass. The second reading came from Romans 13:8–10, where Paul recalls several…