Why Are We So Unhappy? - Crisis Magazine

Why Are We So Unhappy? - Crisis Magazine: The recent spate of suicides by the rich and famous is a symptom of our growing sense of gloom. We enjoy social, technological, and economic conditions that would have been considered utopian less than a century ago. Yet, unhappiness, and even depression, are at record levels. Why? In his impressively researched book, The Progress Paradox, …

How Is a Man Not Like a Computer? - Crisis Magazine

How Is a Man Not Like a Computer? - Crisis Magazine: I have just read a fascinating and, to my mind, cheerful article, by the research psychologist Robert Epstein, on why your brain is not a computer—for the simple reason that your brain does not store memories in the way that a computer does, nor does it function according to algorithms. We are not computers but …

John Paul II Identified the Source of Our Present Cultural Malaise - Crisis Magazine

John Paul II Identified the Source of Our Present Cultural Malaise - Crisis Magazine: Late in life, Pope John Paul II gave a series of interviews subsequently collected in the book Memory and Identity (2005). There, in response to a question about the pervasive ideologies that had swept Europe during the past couple of centuries, and which had resulted in the slaughter of millions, he contended that in order …

What Diocese Will Quote St. Thomas on Citizenship and Immigration? - Crisis Magazine

What Diocese Will Quote St. Thomas on Citizenship and Immigration? - Crisis Magazine: Even as Christian thinkers respond to divorce, gay “marriage,” and mass feticide, we should also give extra thought to the patriotic question, which is more closely related to the pro-life movement and the defense of marriage than we might at first suppose. As C.S. Lewis has pointed out, the different facets of natural law stand …

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