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Time To Tell The Truth
How much longer will we prioritize a Wild West notion of freedom over protecting children and teens? The truth is, like cigarettes and alcohol, these devices are incompatible with healthy…
It Ain’t Funny: Or, Why We Don’t Laugh Together
The laughter of a faithless culture is bitter, derisive. It no longer springs from a merry heart but from dry bones. A culture of faith is a culture that can…
Heroic Romanticism
It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion
The Ghost Cricket Orchestra
If we are willing to listen, we might be able to learn what we are listening for. Not just a deeper connection to our humanity, or a meditative appreciation of…
Lovely, Dark, and Deep
The one observation on which all the Brothers focused with most interest, though, was what I might describe as the words beyond words. These poems are not just about a…
Garden With Children
I am happy that the boys enjoy the garden too. But who knows how it will be in five years?
Crisis Response and the Remembering of Nightlife Hample
A peaceful crisis response paves the way for restoration and wholeness.
Sweet Tea and Sacraments: Flannery O’Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
O’Connor’s fiction does not offer sentimental portraits of faith—it tests faith.
Sowing Winter Wheal: Preparing Seed and Soil for the New Era
As my hibernal title indicates, my sense is that this trajectory will be difficult.
Rooting for Front Porch Journalism
This year the big boys dominated.
In Praise of Old Fencerows
Within five years you could have a tiny piece of managed nature, in which more birds sing than you would have thought possible
Andrew Tate and the Right we Need
Above all, our culture needs an inward right. We need a right wing concerned with the soul and its restoration.
Lectors at the Lectern
I moved on, but I realized in that moment that I hadn’t adequately answered the student’s question
The Black Intellectual Tradition: A Review
may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer
Contemplation in Action: Booth Tarkington and the Art of Business
Tarkington hopes that more Americans will choose to trek that path of fruitful tension in this fragmented world, however difficult it may prove.
In Praise of “Old”
Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.
What a Victorian Novel Teaches Us about Friendship and Civil Order
America has a crisis of friendship
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.
Tolkien, Philosopher of War
Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.
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.
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
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