Franco Institute's inaugural symposium brings together four thinkers to consider how to cultivate and improve attention

The Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Common Good hosted its inaugural Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton Culture and the Public Good Symposium on April 10. Named for two of the foremost socially engaged Catholic thinkers of the 20th century, the signature annual event culminated a year of themed research support at the institute. This year's speakers were Vauhini Vara, journalist and author of The Immortal King Rao and Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age ; Shankar Vedantam, author..