Articles Archive
Writing Exile and Reading Homeward
Here, then, is my homecoming of the imagination: to hold the past bright in memory, and to love also the saplings and the weeds of my exile.
On Nosferatu, Moloch, and AI
Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.
The Anti-Anxious Generation with Ashley Fitzgerald
So I'm wondering where the spirit of the American pioneer, where the culture of the can-do man has gone?
Writing for the Common Good
I can relate the vice of envy most closely with my own writing, because that’s my profession, and I’ve longed to be a professional novelist since I was in elementary…
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"
Matter, Gurus, and Lambing
“Matter Matters.” Paul Kingsnorth kicks off a new series at his Substack exploring ancient holy sites in Europe: “I’ve always been fascinated by how humans interact with their landscapes: what…
Thomas M. Ward On Boethius & Stoicism
Professor Thomas M. Ward teaches at Baylor University. He is a philosopher who focuses on Medieval thought, especially the work of John Duns Scotus. He is the author most recently…
The Maps of Our Lives Point Homeward
Older and wiser, I have long learned that for all the times I wanted to visit far-away places, there is no place like home.
Reflection in a Glass Wall
The reflection looked like a vintage motion picture, only without those stilted movements.
Crafting the Ideal School: Finding a Balance Between High-Tech and the Hands
it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.
Hospitality, AI, and Rivers
“How do I Kill my Microsoft Copilot?” Sam Leith is not particularly fond of Microsoft’s new AI helper: “As far as Big Tech is concerned, no crap idea is so…
How to Raise Readers, in Thirty-Five Steps
It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits
The AI Invasion: For Humans, It’s Becoming Harder to Write
No question about it: For writers like me, who would like nothing more than to do our own writing and thinking with dignity and intellectual honesty, it’s becoming harder to…
On Courage
Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.
The Biblical Case for Conservation
The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.
Media, Meat, and Life
“Last Boys at the Beginning of History.” This essay by Mana Afsari defies summary. Let me just say it is very good: “I was begging to be given values, community,…
Gárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road
Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest
Harr’ today, gone tomorrow
However, the widespread association of these events with the closing of the Hotel Harrington has overshadowed the preceding history of the hotel
Hannibal is at the Gates: Gambling in America
With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.
Philosophy in the Ruins
As long as we do live philosophical lives and share in that life with others, we can sprout a philosophical culture from the ruins of the one dominated by the…
