by Kenneth Craycraft Near the end of his novel, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene details a conversation between an old priest and one of the main characters of the novel, a young woman named Rose. The interchange takes place after the sudden, violent death of another character, Pinky, whose life had …

The Dignity of Dependence By Leah Libresco Sargeant | University of Notre Dame Press, 2025 | 232 pages | $28.00. In his inauguration speech as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” This dichotomy is not …