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I distinctly remember on Christmas morning ...

Literacy anchors us to our surroundings and our heritage. It acquaints us with the particulars and holds us in the web of relations.

Perhaps the choice not to have a computer is more a choice not to play pretend.

In this first episode of A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening to music about middle age and talking about its various indignities.

Sally Thomas remembers the wry and wonderful formalist poet Jane Greer.

Why didn’t Fabre gaze out into the heavens, like Copernicus and Galileo, instead of down at these grotesque little monsters?

It turns out that while you can take the man out of the Xaverians, it is more difficult to take the Xaverian out of the man.

Socrates encounters many of the same rhetorical stunts that we run into on the Internet today.

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

Blood and violence and death are on every page; however, trace that which has fallen back to its original height, especially the moment in the barn where all the rough…

Grace Russo isn’t impressed with her alma mater’s AI assistant.

A republic endures only through the devotion and resolve of an active citizenry.

The fabled pearly gates may be a noisy place.

I recently learned the most effective cure ever for blisters: iodine. I had no idea; and I bet your mother, like mine, told you to bandage a blister and never,…

Churches aren’t offering peace. They’re optimizing for engagement. And what gets built in the end is impressive. But like all “Babels,” it can’t bear the weight of the human soul.

In a fragmented age increasingly seduced by the cult of the self, "Wuthering Heights" challenges us to reclaim the difficult virtues that make real community possible.

Jen Pollock Michel describes what she’s learned while caring for her aging mother.

You are probably familiar with the concept of the “Sports Illustrated cover jinx.”

"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."

When the algorithm identifies someone as a “gang member” based on human-generated criteria, the model’s “ground truth,” however flawed, becomes a stand-in for reality.

The furniture of the old churches and chapels formed the habitus of those who worshipped there regularly.

This is Goethe’s experience. And mine.

“Food Is Not Magic.” Garth Brown probes the oddities that ensue when people conscript food into an ideological project: “Contradictions and superficiality do not discredit the claim that the modern…

How do people maintain the illusion that “the times” are on their side?