Freddie DeBoer reflects in Unherd on the centre-stage role “neurodivergence” has taken on social media. The term describes a person who both seeks sympathy for and celebrates their mental and emotional afflictions. Via a book review, DeBoer offers a personal and thoughtful take that there’s still room in the middle to help those with psychiatric disorders.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


