Garret Keizer
Garret Keizer is a contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine and the author of Getting Schooled, The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want, and Privacy.
All Writing
Essay
Disaster
Solidarity and Survival
Garret KeizerWhether it’s earthquakes, famines, or floods, the social contract is continuously put to the test in times of... More
Essay
Book of Nature
And Such Small Deer
Garret KeizerA writer struggles to defend his trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.” More
Essay
Religion
The Courtesy of God
Garret KeizerNever mind does God exist—does the God debate exist? Reexamining the relationship between faith and reason. More
Essay
Family
A Harmony in Living
Garret KeizerHappy families are indeed all alike in calling forth the best of their members’ humanity. More
Essay
Revolutions
No Smoke for Camilo
Garret KeizerCan one be a Christian and a revolutionary? Consider the case of Camilo Torres Restrepo, and the meaning of liberation... More
Roundtable
Memento Mori and the Melting Ice
The rationale of the memento mori tradition is that we’ll commit fewer sins, waste less time, if we remember our end. That we won’t be such jerks. “Depend upon it, sir,” says Samuel Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” More
