“In ‘those rare moments when we find ourselves alone and the gadgetry silent, we feel we are at a loss,’ Elizabeth Scalia writes in Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life. ‘With nothing to distract us, we come face to face with a keening emptiness.’ Scalia, known on the Internet as ‘The Anchoress,’ says that ‘silence’ can be ‘terrifying’ then. ‘But only because it lays bare our loneliness, our self-recriminations, and our doubts. Possessing nothing that is equal to those depths, we sense the need to distract ourselves and the cycle begins to churn again.’”
Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor at large of National Review Online and nationally syndicated columnist, recently interviewed Elizabeth Scalia about this book.
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