Recent updates as well as two topics that have been front of mind.

"Chesterton says we will never recover common sense until we recover the mysticism of the saints. The saints are ‘wild and perfect.” They put their idealism in the right place and their realism in the right place. We have both things displaced. The saints put their dreams and sentiments into their aims, where they ought to be, and their practicality into their practice, where it ought to be. We have it backwards. Our dreams, we insist are quite practical. But our practice is quite impractical. Our aims fall short of heaven. Our practice falls short even of earth. And one of the main problems with our practice is that we don’t do anything ourselves. We don’t take responsibility. We leave it to the expert or to the public servant or to the private servant. "