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

“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…

Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.

So live like the oyster, eat an oyster, and remember to recycle your shell for the benefit of future generations of man and mollusk alike.

The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned.

Only then can attention and passion be directed in the most life-giving ways and only then can a healthy culture emerge from a disconnected and attenuated one.

If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like?

“Sexuality After Industrialism.” James Wood urges conservatives to learn from Ivan Illich’s analysis of gender: “Illich forces us to reconsider the very foundation of our gender debates. Targeting the sexual…

You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you.

Parental bereavement is as profound as the lifelong changes that accompany it

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.

“How Progressives Froze the American Dream.” Yoni Appelbaum’s essay, drawn from his new book Stuck, has some fair critiques of NIMBYism and thoughtful reflections on the tensions inherent in zoning,…

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions which he has taken has elicited delight,…

I come to praise Douthat, not to bury him.

“Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI.” Alan Kluegel turns an analysis of a dumb AI commercial into a meditation on the likely social effects of AI adoption: “The…

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.

Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.

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…

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"

“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…

This year I’m renewing my commitment to the sentence.

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…

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.

The reflection looked like a vintage motion picture, only without those stilted movements.