From Prof. Eric Cunningham of Gonzaga:
“The function of the university” wrote Thomas Merton, “is to help men and women save their souls, and in so doing, to save their society: from what? From the hell of meaninglessness, of obsession, of complex artifice, of systematic lying, of criminal evasions and neglects, of self-destructive futilities.”
For those seeking to avoid that “hell of meaninglessness”: James V. Schall’s “On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs.”