
Cultivating Moral Imagination in Uncertain Times
Recently, a student sent me a political news article with the comment “Things are falling apart.” I didn’t reply right
June 2026


June 22, 2026 | By Jolyn Dahlvig and Robin Grebing
“I want to cultivate the capacity for second thoughts, by which I mean the stance and the competence that makes it feasible to inquire into the obvious. This is what I call learning.”
—Ivan Illich, “Ascesis”

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