Commentary The headlines of two years, and intensifying by the day, have followed a trajectory from the history books: disease, quarantine, early death, inflation, food shortages, war, and now even the prospect of famine. My mind forever races back to Feb. 28, 2020—two weeks before our lives went into upheaval—and the horrifying suggestion of The New York Times: That’s precisely what happened. It was catastrophic, and the damage is all around us. And it is getting worse. All this drives us to consider a way to stay safe in the midst of chaos that hardly anyone expected. If we really are going back from modernity, away from prosperity and peace, toward a world in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” we must think of another way to go medieval. We need to cultivate sanctuary. It is not only needed. It is morally urgent. The medieval monastery was not …
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