Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times offers the necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial (and still available) aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. Here Leon Kass, explores the old Socratic question, “How to live?” and offers various conclusions that often point if different and competing directions.