“I have found the world kinder than I expected, but less just,” Samuel Johnson is said to have remarked. The same might be said of the popular response to poverty and hunger in America. It, too, is kinder but less…

Reducing life to its simplest components can be a relief for many, especially the young, and especially in a world where an overabundance of choices is no longer an emblem of our freedom but more a sign of our slavery.…