Christian Wiman’s Essay Celebrated in David Brooks’ Sidney Awards
ISM Professor Christian Wiman was acknowledged in David Brooks’ December 26 New York Times op-ed announcing the annual Sidney Awards, which honor the year’s most distinguished nonfiction essays. Brooks highlights Wiman’s Harper’s Magazine essay, “The Tune of Things,” praising its exploration of a reality that is mystical, fluid, and resistant to rigid explanation. Drawing on examples from physics, biology, and human consciousness, Wiman—the Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication Arts at the ISM and Yale Divinity School—challenges inherited divisions between reason and belief, science and faith, and even past and future. The column situates Wiman’s work among standout essays that grapple with tragedy, moral choice, technology, and human intuition.
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