Articles

It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone

But there still remains room for us to read books in community today,

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.

In Search of Solace

Death often challenges our view of the physical and invisible worlds.

Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored...

There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply.

It Wouldn’t Be Lent Without a Bar Jester Chronicle

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

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