Costică Brădăţan

Costică Brădăţan is the author, most recently, of In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press, 2023).

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Feature

Christ at the Assembly Line

Simone Weil went into the factory to find out more about the social conditions of the modern worker in capitalism. Instead, she found Jesus Christ.

By Costică Brădăţan

January 8, 2023

Feature

Two Sides of Dignity

By letting civility happen, we take better care not only of others and of the world itself, but of ourselves.

By Costică Brădăţan

November 2, 2022

Article

The Only Way to Stand It

Tadeusz Borowski’s ‘Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories’ explores the complex social, political, and intellectual climate of Nazi Germany.

By Costică Brădăţan

May 18, 2022

Article

A Happy Contrarian

A new collection of interviews with René Girard offers insight into the complexity of his ideas and the process through which he came to them.

By Costică Brădăţan

March 12, 2021

Article

A Soft Spot for Atheism

Atheism is too serious a business to be left to the unbelievers. Unbelief needs the believer’s reflecting gaze to better understand itself.

By Costică Brădăţan

June 8, 2020

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Inescapable Influence

Whether we like it or not, we in the West inhabit a world that remains structured by Christian assumptions and informed by Christian ideas.

By Costică Brădăţan

September 30, 2019

Secularism and Modernity

Must Reads

Politics

How Not to Defend Liberalism

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

By Alexander Stern

September 14, 2023

Religion

Bringing Mass to a Migrant Camp

“In a migrant camp, liturgy is an act of bricolage.”

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

September 1, 2023

Culture

Dancing Around Death

A new exhibit brings together Tibetan Buddhist and European Christian art, inviting visitors to ponder their ambivalence surrounding death.

September 14, 2023

Books

Helen Keller, Christian Socialist

Helen Keller's public image is benignly inspiring. A new book digs into her identity as a radical Leftist whose politics were rooted in her faith.

September 13, 2023

Collections

Confronting Climate Change

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September 20, 2021

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