The Stump 340

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…

It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion

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…

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…

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love

We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually

As my hibernal title indicates, my sense is that this trajectory will be difficult.

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.

This year the big boys dominated.

Above all, our culture needs an inward right. We need a right wing concerned with the soul and its restoration.

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

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

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

Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.

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?

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.

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…

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.

"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."

With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.

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…

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.