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love is the most powerful force in the world.

it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.

“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…

It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits

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…

Conservatives should reconsider the lessons of Romanticism.

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.

The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.

“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,…

Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest

However, the widespread association of these events with the closing of the Hotel Harrington has overshadowed the preceding history of the hotel

With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.

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…

“Educating Humans.” I’m relishing the new issue of Plough. Alex Sosler has a great essay on trade schools, Tim Maendel describes one teacher’s creative ways of teaching his students to…