Sardinian arist Pinuccio Sciola built a life on the claim that stones can sing. Ten years after his death, visitors to his stone garden can listen for themselves.

The work of French Jesuit Michel de Certeau attempted to discern what lay beyond and beneath the glamor of postwar materialism.

Physician-assisted suicide is not harmless or selfless: it is a rejection of the inherent dignity of the elderly and the vulnerable.