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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
America’s Failure to Achieve Posture Perfection
Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.
A Knock at My door
Many who grieve have discovered that we are not weaker but stronger in our newfound awareness of what matters to us.
The Black Intellectual Tradition: A Review
may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer
The Other Cancel Culture
Perhaps most importantly, however, we need to return to encouraging each other to keep commitments,
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.
Muses of A Fire: An Interview with Paul Krause
It seems that true love has been forgotten.
One Weird Trick to Getting a Perfect Education
The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn
In Praise of “Old”
Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.
In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball
As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing.
Freedom and Friendliness in Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction
Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy?
“Turbo”
Turbo burns in my imagination. But I can only imagine now in hypotheticals.
What a Victorian Novel Teaches Us about Friendship and Civil Order
America has a crisis of friendship
Attending to Plants, People, and Place
My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t
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 World
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