The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s decision to get engaged while in prison as his “positive statement that life will go on,” his affirmation of the power of love.

I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology...