In a pivotal scene in the critically acclaimed new film A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as a young Bob Dylan, Dylan and an assembled group of band members are in the studio about to record "Like a Rolling Stone," the song that defines Dylan's career. The producer of the track is Tom Wilson, who is credited with helping both Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel make the transition from folk to rock and thus to international stardom.

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In his book God, Philosophy, Universities, Alasdair MacIntyre argues that "neither the university nor philosophy is any longer seen as engaging the questions" of "plain persons." These questions include: "What is our place in the order of things? Of what powers in the natural and social world do we need to take account? How should we respond to the facts of suffering and death? What is our relationship to the dead? What is it to live a human life well? What is it to live it badly?"

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Amid what was otherwise a disappointing summer season for Hollywood movies, Inside Out 2 was one of the few exceptions. A sequel that takes its main character Riley into puberty and features characters representing a wide range of Riley's emotions, the film is now the highest grossing in the history of Pixar. In what is rare for sequels, it is at least as entertaining as the first film and—what's more—it contains much wisdom about the nature of human emotions and the best response to anxiety, a problem afflicting not just teens but an increasingly high percentage of the entire population.

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That alone is liberal knowledge, which stands on its own pretensions, which is independent of sequel, expects no complement, refuses to be informed (as it is called) by any end, or absorbed into any art, in order duly to present itself to our contemplation. The most ordinary pursuits have this specific character, if they are self-sufficient and complete.[1]

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The Chosen, whose fourth season out of a planned seven has recently been released on streaming, continues to be enormously popular. It also continues to depict central scenes from the Gospels—including this season's portrayal of the raising of Lazarus—in deeply moving and memorable ways, even if season four seems to contain more filler and more clumsily executed scenes than previous ones. A powerful and pervasive theme in this season has to do with grief, loss, and the mysterious designs of God.

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