suicide

January 31, 2020|alienation, suicide, Walker Percy

Remembering Walker Percy: A Collection of Law & Liberty Essays

Walker Percy in 1980 (Evelyn Hofer/Getty Images).

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Walker Percy’s death, and the eminent philosopher-novelist repays our attention and thought more than ever.

May 31, 2019|Fyodor Dostoevsky, John F. Desmond, Rene Girard, suicide, Walker Percy

Prophets for Our Age of Suicide

by Jessica Hooten Wilson|

Every age needs prophets—whether or not they heed their cautions—because prophets stand out of and often against the current.

July 20, 2018|2001: A Space Odyssey, alienation, apocalypse, Blade Runner, Lost in the Cosmos, science fiction, suicide, Walker Percy

Balancing Technology and Self-Knowledge with Walker Percy

by Titus Techera|

Stephanie Zieber/Shutterstock.com

Our science fiction is not open to the soul's longings as revealed through eroticism, community, and faith: turning to Walker Percy can help remedy this.

June 15, 2018|Anthony Bourdain, anxiety, depression, Kate Spade, suicide, Walker Percy

Living as an Ex-Suicide

by Jessica Hooten Wilson|

Walker Percy in 1980 (Evelyn Hofer/Getty Images).

If we want to understand how someone who "has it all" could commit suicide, Walker Percy remains our best guide.

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

About