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Prophetic Possibilities: A Few Words on David W. Orr and a Healing Vision for America
A healing vision for America, Orr suggests in his writings, is one faithful to the great nearby, to the gospel of the local.
Can Driftwood Determine?
Maybe we ought to use our being and thinking not to decide what our lives should be “for” or “against,” but rather what we would like our lives to define.
The Age of AI Parenting
Altman, while acknowledging that people can and have parented before AI, stated that he cannot imagine parenting without it.
Old Fred’s Night Music
What is the ideal that we sometimes glimpse within the world and which thus inspires our own attempts at order-making, at meaning-making?
Why Cormac McCarthy Stands Alone Among Novelists
McCarthy, a little before the rest of us, had caught a glimpse of Western Civilization’s end.
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Writing from the Heart: Songs About Sincerity
Boy, I had very little idea what I wanted to say about sincerity when I started recording, so you’ll hear me sincerely try to figure it out as we listen…
Abundance, Chromebooks, and Satellites
This excerpt from Christopher Beha’s new book draws on John Stuart Mill to probe the flaw at the heart of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s technocratic vision of liberalism.
Calling All in Transit: Alternative Rock Songs
A friend of mine recently asked me for a Spotify playlist of alternative rock—but I don’t use Spotify, so I decided to make the playlist here. This week on A…
Baseball, Gardening, and the Metaverse
It’s been a rough week for those committed to Wendell Berry’s Terrapin Theory of Technology.
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The Exemption Option: AI and Believers
Emerging tools have to justify themselves to us more than we have to justify ourselves to emerging tools.
Speculators versus Farmers: A Review of The Land Trap
Land is only going to become more expensive and thus ever more unaffordable and inaccessible for the agrarians of the future.
The Weighty News of the World
The 1890s gave rise to the journalistic trope, if it bleeds, it leads. And news has never been the same since.
We Are Not Enemies: What an Iranian Film Reveals About Vengeance and Civility
However strained, the bonds of affection must not be broken.
Modern Man’s Problem: Disenchantment or Desecration? A Review of Carl Trueman’s The Desecration of Man
If desecration is the pervasive problem our day, then nothing less than consecration is the answer.
Running Toward A New Life
This is a book for every young man who has ever hit a crisis of meaning or purpose, despite possessing boatloads of knowledge.
The Bell Above the Door
What if instead of nuclear power plants and radioactive waste to dispose of we just consumed less electricity?
Learning to Unknow: On James K.A. Smith’s Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark
By embracing the discomfort of unknowing, we come into a more profound awareness of love in all its splendor.
The Cult of Efficiency and the Technological Society
Modernity lays at your feet hundreds if not thousands of tools to make our lives cleaner, smoother, and more efficient.
Living in Ælfric’s Orchard
We should remind ourselves of our eternal home by making an image of it, not as an idol but as an icon.
Breakfast with Brother Dave: The Blessing of Intergenerational Friendship
God has gifted me with great friendships, but my friendship with Dave and others like him has uniquely oriented my life.
From the Archive
From the Editor–Local Culture 4.1: The Civil Dissent Issue
Think not, then, of the ubiquitous screens and hideous architecture and suburban metastasis and microwave dinners. Think rather of Eric Voegelin’s famous quip—Voegelin, who said that “no one is obliged…
Spiritual Secession: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth
" None of your readers need me to tell them that the useful work is practical, particular, small and careful: to get away from screens as much as we can, get…
Tanya Berry’s Faithful Art
Women like Tanya bring artistry and honor to everything they touch: the homes they inhabit, the land they steward, the children they raise. These photographs are testimony to the clear,…
Can There be a National Conservatism?
Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been created by the…
Cheese Should Be Dangerous
The cheese crafted here came about as a byproduct of a larger whole, the natural dividend of a complete way of life, and this is the foundation of the best…