R J SnellR. J. SNELL is director of academic programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and Editor-in-Chief of The Public Discourse. He is the author of many essays in scholarly and popular journals. Recent books include Mind, Heart, and Soul: Inellectuals and the Path to Rome (with Robert P. George), and Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire. Read More Read Less