“Befriending Others” Articles

Politically, I came of age in the mid-90s, and I have never forgotten the horror of Rwanda.

The show refuses to follow the “inspirationally disadvantaged” cliché found in lots of fiction that features disabled characters.

Although it’s fiction, The Walking Dead reaches into our nonfiction hearts and draws to the surface survivolatry we excuse in ourselves.

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.

Learning to befriend those who are utterly different from ourselves is nothing short of a miracle.