In this final Module of Food for Thought in the Spring, we explored Elaine Scarry’s “brave and timely book,” On Beauty and Being Just. In the book, she not only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses us toward a great concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry writes an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums and classrooms. For one of the sessions we invited Professor Terence Sweeney from Villanova University, who gave further elucidations about qualities particular to beauty, and for one of the last sessions, we invited Dr. Delia Popa, also from Villanova, who led a discussion on how beauty assists us in our attention to justice.