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Luddite Pedagogy, Robert Moses, and Blue Labour

“Can We Go to the Neighbourhood?” Amber Lapp has a lovely essay on how her daughter helped her live in her neighborhood: “The sight of this toddler in a sparkly…

America’s Failure to Achieve Posture Perfection

Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.

A Knock at My door

Many who grieve have discovered that we are not weaker but stronger in our newfound awareness of what matters to us.

The Black Intellectual Tradition: A Review

may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer

The Other Cancel Culture

Perhaps most importantly, however, we need to return to encouraging each other to keep commitments,

Contemplation in Action: Booth Tarkington and the Art of Business

Tarkington hopes that more Americans will choose to trek that path of fruitful tension in this fragmented world, however difficult it may prove.

Muses of A Fire: An Interview with Paul Krause

It seems that true love has been forgotten.

One Weird Trick to Getting a Perfect Education

The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn
March 29, 2025

Baseball, O’Connor, and Nostalgia

“Play (and Watch) Ball!” Bill Kauffman praises baseball as a community-building pastime, and he highly recommends Will Bardenwerper’s new book: “I started going to ball games with my parents and…

In Praise of “Old”

Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.

In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball

As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing.
Jeremy Beer
March 27, 2025

Freedom and Friendliness in Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction

Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy?

“Turbo”

Turbo burns in my imagination. But I can only imagine now in hypotheticals.
March 25, 2025

Thinking, Baseball, and Eggs

“Have Humans Passed Peak Brain Power?” John Burn-Murdoch points to several indicators that humans across the world are simply thinking and understanding less now than happened ten years ago. The…

Attending to Plants, People, and Place

My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t

It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone

But there still remains room for us to read books in community today
March 21, 2025

Cleaning an Empty Home

There is not a lot of time for sentimentality when you’re in the final week of madly preparing to list your empty, but very much “lived-in,” house

Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?

Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.
March 19, 2025

Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.

In Search of Solace

Death often challenges our view of the physical and invisible worlds.

Journalism, Fractures, and Trash

Save the date for our fall FPR conference at Baylor! “The Tacit Dimension of Shop Class.” Mars Hill Audio is publishing an audio version of this classic Mark Mitchell essay.…

Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored World

There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply.

It Wouldn’t Be Lent Without a Bar Jester Chronicle

anyone sharing my Germanic inclinations—pecca fortitor!—is likely to embark upon the challenge.