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.

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.

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.