Dickens’s novel forces us to face the first, and we know now, the ongoing dilemmas of modernism: the collisions between technological advances and the inequality of outcomes, resistance, competing thought systems and faiths, reform movements, government intervention, and the search for ‘’community’’ and the essentials needed for human well-being. If you have not registered before, go to http://bit.ly/FPL-Lifelong-Learning-Lectures to join our mailing list and to receive the Zoom link for each lecture.