“When intolerable conflicts do arise, dignity cultures prescribe direct but non-violent actions.” The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf shares the findings of a new scholarly paper on what he calls the rise of victimhood culture. And a somewhat related piece I linked to a few weeks ago: The Coddling of the American Mind.

+ In Mosaic, Bryn Nelson shares the story of an 82-year-old doctor whose has a radical idea about the real source of the excruciating eye pain felt by many people: In the blink of an eye. You can read this as the story of a doctor searching for a solution. I read it as an all too common story of how brutal it is to have debilitating pain that no one seems to be able explain.

+ Shannon Proudfoot in MacLean’s: Jo Aubin has Alzheimer’s. He’s 38. Slipping Away