November 1, 2025Charles McNamara wrestles with how we might regain the virtues needed for real education.
October 31, 2025The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove…
October 30, 2025Brad Littlejohn’s recent book offers wise guidance for navigating our way through these times of rapid change.
October 29, 2025Many are quick to posit that we have a wide range of rights, yet we are almost tongue-tied about our…
October 28, 2025Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give…
October 27, 2025Inspired by absolutely nothing in my personal life, we’re listening to break-up songs this week on A Symposium of Popular…
October 27, 2025At its best, Krause’s writing reminds us that poetry is not a luxury but a vital mode of human knowing,…- October 25, 2025In a searing essay, Alvaro M. Bedoya, a former FTC commissioner, describes how he came to embrace populism.
October 24, 2025We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied,…
October 23, 2025A box by a door. A hand that picks up. A name that calls an object to account.
October 22, 2025Practicing the discipline of attention- October 21, 2025A room once filled with my son and his belongings was mostly empty. It wasn’t the absence of his stuff…
