I posted this four months ago (I usually do every year or so), but given the shock — shock, I say! — that so many experiencing because Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do, I share again this bright bit of wisdom from Thomas Merton, ton reflect on how we so often deceive ourselves:

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander was the first book by Thomas Merton that I encountered. This was the moment when I decided I was going to read everything else this man had written: