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Welcoming the Shadow Brother
One recent morning I realized something I should have noticed years ago, namely that for much of my life the extrovert in me has been selling out the introvert
An Affirmative Case for Christian Patriotism: A review of Daniel Darling’s In Defense of Christian Patriotism
A sense of biblically justified disavowal of one’s polity was not the norm in Christianity generally, and American Christianity specifically.
This Machine Kills Experience
The real impact of the digital revolution hits us directly in the place that matters most: our very experience of life
The Language of Joy: The Allure of Three Insatiable Letters
Joy is a little word: three letters, one syllable. It is luminous. It is impenetrable. It is a word that offers much, if it doesn’t slip out of your hand.
The Body a Virtual Age Most Needs
"You do not find your way back to the real by striving for it but by receiving it."
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Gratitude, War, and Play
Matt Wheeler writes a wonderful appreciation of Wendell Berry’s newest novel.
Slow Trigger, Starting Line: Songs About Waiting
This week, we’re listening to songs about waiting, and I’ll tell you a story you might not know about Tom Petty and plagiarism. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
Seeds, Scribes, and Jeremiahs
Sam Kriss visits San Francisco and talks to highly agentic people burning through a lot of cash to do stuff.
I Didn’t Sleep at All Last Night: Songs About Insomnia
I promised it in our very first episode, and now I’m finally delivering: here are some songs all about not being able to get to sleep. Send your song recommendations…
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Rowing the Stone Canoe: A Few Words About a Resistance that Looks Beyond Denial and Hate to Healing
Now, what might a nobler, healthier American dream look like?
Every Child is Born a Person: Classical Education for All
My background had taught me to view the labels, the deficits, first, yet Mason was pointing me towards the person...
What Makes a Good Neighbor? A Review of The Perfect Neighbor by Geeta Gandbhir
On June 2, 2023, an Ocala, Florida woman named Susan Lorincz fired a shot through her locked and dead-bolted front door, killing her neighbor...
Triteness and Truth: A Meditation in Three Panels
The more I came to know my students, the more the songs I formerly despised emptied themselves of their triteness. They became, in their own way, sacred.
Public Health and the Machine
Since the birth of public health in nineteenth-century rationalism, the profession has been tempted by gnostic seductions.
Vincenzo Latronico’s Cold Brilliance
The novel’s chief strength, in other words, lies in its presentation of Anna and Tom’s struggle against . . . something.
Localism Against Tribalism
We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it.
Revisiting Milton: A Review of Alan Jacobs’ Biography of Paradise Lost
Milton may displease, offend, or disrupt, but he rarely leaves a reader unmoved.
A New Entry in the Canon of Orphan Literature
He begins the story cradling his father’s headstone, a symbol, as there is no body, and prepares to set it next to his mother’s grave.
The Oath I Took
Immigrants have always arrived this way: quietly, uncertainly, carrying their losses, adding their weight to the ground.
Dispatch from the Badger State (and a Modest Proposal for College Football)
To state the obvious, college football is no longer “so college.”
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…