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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.

Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go

After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden

Localism, Immigration, and the Ordo Amoris

Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story
March 12, 2025

The Cruel Reality Behind Guest Worker Visas

The only way for countries committed to The Machine to stop migration will be an expansion of the cruel forces
March 11, 2025

Time Keeps on Slippin’

God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life.

Boys, Suburbia, and Repair

“Larry Ellison’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust.” Tom Dotan reports on one tech titan’s efforts to remake agriculture from his base on an Hawaiian island: “Little…

Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell

Like the wonderful American writer Wendell Berry, Adrian Bell’s desire for a return to a more sympathetic agriculture is not born out of nostalgia