The Editors

An education in the human arts and sciences involves a present, embodied, non-automated engagement with art, ideas, and the written word.

Children laugh, after all, long before they understand or speak words.

Albert Camus once wrote: “We must imagine Sisyphus happy.” I would rather imagine Icarus landing.

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I don’t expect elite ideologues to get it, I just wish they’d stop flattening the problems of the working class into neat stories that serve their political projects.

Papal warnings about over-centralization shed light on the trajectory of the politics of Newark, New Jersey.

In a culture that measures a young person’s success by the velocity with which they escape their hometown, I found myself questioning the script.

If you plop a screen in front of a child, it requires nothing of you other than handing over the device.

To plant and cultivate good seed is perhaps the best response to this reality.

The vast majority of the past has dissolved into a state of prehistory, forgotten because there was no one who thought it worthy of recording.

Though I’ve left the Army, it hasn’t left me.

Our increasingly obvious failure to make anything like “progress” is part and parcel of our failure to conserve the order from which all progress comes.

The agrarian voice reveals Nolan’s most significant and disappointing departure from Homer’s epic.

In American society, computers are never required to prove their worth.

Artificial intelligence gets the best of me most days. It demands too much. It takes a profession that I love and turns it into a soul-crushing curse.

The moment, while small and perhaps unimportant, stayed with me and was a beautiful example of the great conversation with the stranger.

There’s a harmony between wilderness, city, and farm that Bates captures exquisitely. Separate any one from the other, and you have a diminished America.

Hren addresses our cultural moment through the idiom of corrective: great literature can help restore things that Western societies are losing.

I know that the Greenbrier represents more than potential horror—it represents what Americans hope to preserve: our beautiful nation, one worth preserving.

We take beauty for granted, yet it keeps coming at us in an endless display of divine grace and power.

After the cold and dark of a long Russian winter, spring had arrived.

Sometimes the things one encounters change the person doing the choosing.

It’s a terrifying thing to graduate your children from high school, hoping they’ll be able to meet adulthood and be successful.

The ghosts of the Swedish colony of the Delaware still haunt placenames in the region.