August 4, 2025In this first episode of A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening to music about middle age and talking…
August 2, 2025Sally Thomas remembers the wry and wonderful formalist poet Jane Greer.
August 1, 2025Why didn’t Fabre gaze out into the heavens, like Copernicus and Galileo, instead of down at these grotesque little monsters?
July 31, 2025It turns out that while you can take the man out of the Xaverians, it is more difficult to take…
July 30, 2025Socrates encounters many of the same rhetorical stunts that we run into on the Internet today.
July 29, 2025We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.
July 28, 2025Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height,…- July 26, 2025Grace Russo isn’t impressed with her alma mater’s AI assistant.
July 25, 2025A republic endures only through the devotion and resolve of an active citizenry.
July 24, 2025The fabled pearly gates may be a noisy place.
July 23, 2025I recently learned the most effective cure ever for blisters: iodine. I had no idea; and I bet your mother,…
July 22, 2025Churches aren’t offering peace. They’re optimizing for engagement. And what gets built in the end is impressive. But like all…
