What are we doing here is a call for americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake american political and cultural life as deeply impressed by obligation and as a great theater of heroic generosity which despite all is sometimes palpable still. What are we doing here is a call for americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake american political and cultural life as deeply impressed by obligation and as a great theater of heroic generosity which despite all is sometimes palpable still. What are we doing here brilliantly addresses the much more practical and complimentary question could you run that by us again nearly all of the essays here originated as live talks given by invitation between 2015 and 2017. Ive heard it said that marilynne robinson is every atheists favorite christian and with what are we doing here a recently released collection of essays its easy to understand why robinsons christianity is calvinism without the despair it is the calvinism of cromwell and the . Analysis of mark edmundsons who are we and what are we doing here