Searching for Consolation in Max Weber’s Work Ethic The German sociologist’s famous treatise on capitalism takes on new meaning amid a job-destroying pandemic.

Consolation leads you to do everything spontaneously, as if we were children. But let’s be careful. We must distinguish well between the consolation that comes from God and false consolations.

The consolation prize always felt more wondrous than the trophy from a real win. You had failed, and yet the world treated you with pleasure anyway.

Sharing the Rites of Consolation When We’re Apart Behind the statistics are mourners unable to find comfort by coming together. Edvard Munch, ‘Consolation’ (1907).

Michael Oberlander sits down with Lynn Schmidt and discusses the year since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, grief and the promise of consolation, and the hope for peace.

Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He has taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities and in 2022 became the President and Rector at Central European ...