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If we cannot tell the difference between ourselves and machines, it may not be that the machines are “that good.” It may be that our lives are that bad.

Hren addresses our cultural moment through the idiom of corrective: great literature can help restore things that Western societies are losing.

I know that the Greenbrier represents more than potential horror—it represents what Americans hope to preserve: our beautiful nation, one worth preserving.

I'm taking the month of July off from making new episodes of A Symposium of Popular Songs and taking the opportunity to replay some of my favorite episodes from last…

Luke Allen describes what it’s like to live in northern Michigan, a place that’s increasingly oriented toward tourism.

We take beauty for granted, yet it keeps coming at us in an endless display of divine grace and power.

After the cold and dark of a long Russian winter, spring had arrived.

Sometimes the things one encounters change the person doing the choosing.

To me, his body of work for CBC Radio’s Ideas is the most remarkable sustained achievement in public intellectual life in the last half-century.

I'm taking the month of July off from making new episodes of A Symposium of Popular Songs and using the opportunity to share some older ones you might have missed.…

Sarah Reardon cautions against the typical American narrative that frames vacations as a respite from busyness.

It’s a terrifying thing to graduate your children from high school, hoping they’ll be able to meet adulthood and be successful.

The ghosts of the Swedish colony of the Delaware still haunt placenames in the region.

Not only has Magnolia crossed over. She’s managed to go bounding straight into the troubling territory of heaven.

That there is a just price at which an economic exchange should take place is a feature of classical philosophy and Christian and Islamic thought.

It's rare to have the opportunity to look at another person, especially a stranger.

I'm taking the month of July off from doing new episodes and using the opportunity to re-air some episodes you might have missed. This one is from 27 October 2025…

The differences between the Television Age and the Internet Age are just as illuminating as their similarities.

Affectionately known by her grandchildren as “Lulu,” I knew Katherine Walbert Walker, of Oklahoma City, only as “Aunt Kathy.”

Pretending we are not what we are—finite, dependent creatures—limits our freedom to act rightly in the world.

Plough is accepting submissions for its short fiction contest through September 1st. The winning story will be published in Plough, and the winning writer will receive a prize of $2,000.…

The mass hysteria of modern consumerism got hold of this product launch, and the result was mobs and fist fights.

While students struggle, we ensure that all of our pieces of paper align properly and our electronic signatures are where they are supposed to be.

In this episode of A Symposium of Popular Songs, which originally aired 22 September 2025, we listened to songs about solidarity, one-half of the foundation of Catholic social teaching. Send…