Provocation: Beauty and Niceness in an Accidental World

Do we need God to talk about morality?

Trafoi Glacier on the Stelvio Pass.

Dear Readers:

Before you are the first results of a new experiment: The Provocation. Once a month, subscribers may pester, goad, torment one of our writers. We’ll send out a notice (like this one) designating the given individual, and then it’s a free-for-all in the comments. Post your provocation — a bothersome prompt,…