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An infinite game must be not only intrinsically worthwhile but also sustainable, and that indefinitely.

We’re talking about transcendence this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and it’s coming from every direction: religion, drugs, death, and all the rest. Send your song recommendations to…

The world of books is tacitly conceived of as a homey yet elevated sphere analogous perhaps to Tolkien’s Shire. How did books become what Joel Miller calls “the forgotten technology”?

Robert Wyllie writes about Kirk’s assassination and the state of hyperpolitics with the appropriate self-awareness, despair, and hope.

How should we morally evaluate or rank the various choices we make that lead to embryo death?

What has Ezra Pound to offer to the citizens of the Front Porch Republic?

What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress

As I unburdened myself of mask and chest protector I swore I would never again gainsay a ruling, no matter how dubious, of the fellow behind the plate ...

We’re talking about memory this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs. How much do we need to remember in order to think, and how much do we need to…

Leisure is not entertainment, play, or a chance to catch your breath in order to return to work restored.

Chase Steely visits Elder’s Bookstore in Nashville and muses on the literary and cultural traditions born in that city.

A vision of the future.

The national dialogue has myopically focused on bringing back manufacturing jobs, which misses the point that the real goal should be stable communities.

Out here the road doesn’t speak theory—it breathes.

Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

We’re listening to songs about crying this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and there are so many of them that I’m only playing artists I’ve never played on…

Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival ... Writing, perhaps, not even to be read but simply to praise ...

Charles McNamara wrestles with how we might regain the virtues needed for real education.

The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.

Brad Littlejohn’s recent book offers wise guidance for navigating our way through these times of rapid change.

Many are quick to posit that we have a wide range of rights, yet we are almost tongue-tied about our responsibilities.

Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.

Inspired by absolutely nothing in my personal life, we’re listening to break-up songs this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs. I’ll try not to make it too depressing! Send…

At its best, Krause’s writing reminds us that poetry is not a luxury but a vital mode of human knowing, one that can re-enchant our disenchanted age and direct us…