If proof were needed that size does not matter, this slender volume from Conor Barnes—Musings at the End of Modernity—would suffice. In only one hundred brief “aphorisms,” Barnes distills the essential elements of civilization and religion, both East and West, as they developed into the modern age. Modernity, as Barnes shows, has arrived at the dead end of humanistic atheism. In the whiteout blizzard of modern information and thought, Barnes—like Ibsen’s Brand—hears the voice proclaiming “He is Deus Caritatus.”