The Stump 340
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…
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
1.5 Speed to Nowhere
Over the decades, I suppose I learned a lot from podcasts; plenty of facts and all the “sides” to stories. Very little of those things seem to matter to me…
On Being Indifferent
The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and relations, carried out in the compass of a small town…
Taking a Turn Taking it on the Chin
But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love
What’s in a Name?
We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually
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.
An Inside Job
It’s time to give the kids a better life script, to give them something more to aspire to than slumping over a screen for the rest of their lives.
Rooting for Front Porch Journalism
This year the big boys dominated.
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.
It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone
But there still remains room for us to read books in community today
Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?
Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.
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
Artificial Intelligence for the Artificially Intelligent
Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.
“Ordo Amoris” and ending Burnout Culture
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.
The Space Travelers
If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like?
Subservience to Progressive Little Notions
If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.
Writing for the Common Good
I can relate the vice of envy most closely with my own writing, because that’s my profession, and I’ve longed to be a professional novelist since I was in elementary…
On Courage
Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.
Lament for a Post-National Canada
"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."
Hannibal is at the Gates: Gambling in America
With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.
Philosophy in the Ruins
As long as we do live philosophical lives and share in that life with others, we can sprout a philosophical culture from the ruins of the one dominated by the…
A Larger Category Than Political Allegiance
Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.