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The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn

Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.

As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing.

Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy?

Turbo burns in my imagination. But I can only imagine now in hypotheticals.

America has a crisis of friendship

My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t

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

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

Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.

Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.

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

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

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

After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden

Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story

The only way for countries committed to The Machine to stop migration will be an expansion of the cruel forces

God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life.

Like the wonderful American writer Wendell Berry, Adrian Bell’s desire for a return to a more sympathetic agriculture is not born out of nostalgia

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?