October 2026

GOOD THOUGHT

In our Fall 2026 magazine, we interviewed professor and scholar Danielle Allen. Allen’s work pivots around two interrelated questions: How should I live? And, how should we live? For Allen, these questions are live and pressing, requiring scholarship and on-the-ground testing.

Will and Attention
Good Read

In Will and Attention, Meghan O’Gieblyn dives deeply into questions about right thinking and right acting. Drawing on the insights of Simone Weil, Arthur Schopenhauer, Iris Murdoch, Catholic theologians, and more, O’Gieblyn examines her own experiences with addiction, organized religion, and the shifting objects of her devotion.

GOOD WORK

Character is often imagined as something formed in classrooms, cultivated through lessons, or practiced in moments of personal decision. But character also takes shape in neighborhoods, on sidewalks, and in the shared spaces where people encounter one another every day. It is built not only through what we learn, but through the communities we create together. For artist and muralist Oscar Joyo, the artist behind the new mural at the Faith Deliverance Center in South Bend, Indiana, public art is one of those places where character comes alive.

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