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Brethren of the Same Principle: A Few Words Toward a Better Politics
They, for the first time, saw each other’s faces. They shook hands. They gave each other cigarettes, beer, champagne. Exchanged buttons from their coats. One German gave an English soldier…
Holden Caulfield and the Ducks of Central Park
Holden Caulfield, the 16-year-old “hero” of The Catcher in the Rye, goes to the park mentally or physically on seven separate occasions in the course of the relatively short novel.
The Grammar of Enchantment
Despite the surplus of enchantment discourse these days, the excellent parts of the book are indeed excellent.
Chemical-Drenched Corn is Not MAHA-Friendly
Mine is not a left-wing voice of animal rights idealism or return-to-the-land idyllicism. This is just plain old real science.
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Identity, Mundanity, and Vaccines
Matthew Crawford points out that much new technology today only adds layers of friction rather than actually solving a problem.
Ivan Illich, Byung-Chul Han, and Cloning
Bianca Bosker dives into the weird and disturbing world of making creatures.
Seamus Heaney, Oakland Ballers, and Frugality
"In fact, MacIntyre’s work is extreme, but we live in extreme times."
MacIntyre, Classical Music, and Diapers
“Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).” Christopher Kaczor remembers the life and legacy of his teacher: “I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as…
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Nature in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma, the nature many of us live so close to is a different thing from the concept of “nature” we have internalized.
What is a Good Life?
A happy life is not something out there in the future. It’s not something you make, even.
On the Necessity of DEI for Restoring Trust in Higher Ed
I can’t help but notice that DEI might be the perfect solution to the politicization of the academy in general, and of the humanities and social sciences in particular.
A Formidable Formative Institution – The Fair Marches On
You have to cut through the glitzy, loud elements—the carnival rides and the tractor pulls and the cotton candy—to see the heart of the fair...
Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre
Dependent Rational Animals offers both a satisfying philosophical exclamation point and a sorely needed ethical and political vision appropriate for the struggles of our own day.
Fuel, Food, and Fault: Rethinking the Emissions Debate
If we are serious about sustainability, we need to rethink where and how we apply pressure.
Friendship and its Paradoxes
Friendship is a fulfillment of our nature: the recognition that loving another for their own sake is, paradoxically, itself essential to our own flourishing.
Responsibility as Destiny: Thoughts on the MAHA Movement
What exactly is health? What do we mean by that word? What is a proper understanding of it?
The Crisis of the Self in an Age of Solutions
We live under the impression that we can do for the human community and the individual human soul what physicists have done with the atom.
Erich Maria Remarque’s Grief
He decides to write about his experience. Two earlier novels were dismal affairs. But now in 1927, over the course of a few months, he fills each page with pain and sorrow
Helping Narcissists Regain Solid Ground
For most people, that’s where their focus on their image ends—they’ve made themselves presentable. But for some, that morning routine was only the beginning.
How One Group Is Disrupting Isolation With Reading
Impressed by this unusual way of cultivating community in a city—NYC, that is—known for its “alone together” anonymity, I decided to reach out
From the Archive
Narnia Against the Machine: Deep Magic for the Modern Age
Witnessing the ascendancy of the Machine, Lewis understood what was at stake. He watched this ideology sweep across his society and take hold in its schools, and he keenly felt…
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…
Cultivating the Skills that Freedom Requires in Matthew Crawford’s Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
Human driving requires unending mutual predictions and constant accommodations for each other. It is in such experiences that we end up with something meaningful for life in the physical world…
The Whole Hog
Alexandria, VA They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can sometimes tell how the book’s designers wanted the book to be judged at first glance.…
Working with Words
Our relationship was still in its early swoon when Nate came to pick me up from work one night. He was so obviously excited to see me that even my…