The increased effort in many companies to systematically create multiskills within employees is illustrative of such a strategy.

Ideas are our rudders. As the soul glides along the warm and swelling sea of feeling, it can only be turned to new points of the moral compass by them.

There was a flurry of publication four years ago stimulated by the septicentennials of Aquinas and Bonaventure, but if one looks to publications which come out of schools or from intellectual leaders, they are hard to find.

The persistence of such practices has led to the advent of a derisive term — ‘hygiene theater’ — to describe rituals that appear to do little to stop the virus from spreading.