Gordon Marino is professor of philosophy and director of the Hong/Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College. His most recent book is The Existentialist’s Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age (HarperOne). Also by this author The Why & the How Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2005-01-28 issue: View Contents Most Recent Toward Nuclear Disarmament? By The Editors April 1, 2025 Watching Christians Celebrate Killing By David Carroll Cochran April 1, 2025 Where Politics Is Still Possible By Jonathan Malesic March 31, 2025