The Institutions Cannot Love You

Part One: What We Expect When Expect Things from Bureaucracy

This is the first of a three-part series on the ethics of institutions. None of it is original to me, and as with most things I write, it’s aspirational rather than something that takes deep roots in me. Yet.

Over the Christmas break, I hit upon an idea for a full-scale, bonkers project: articulating the Christian life systematically, with Dorothy Day a…