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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…
May 6, 2025

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…
May 3, 2025

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
April 26, 2025

What’s in a Name?

We all have the power to name ourselves—collectively, not individually
April 25, 2025

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.
April 14, 2025

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.
April 10, 2025

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.
April 8, 2025

It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone

But there still remains room for us to read books in community today
March 21, 2025

Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?

Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.
March 19, 2025

Localism, Immigration, and the Ordo Amoris

Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story
March 12, 2025

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
March 11, 2025

Artificial Intelligence for the Artificially Intelligent

Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.
March 7, 2025

“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.
March 4, 2025

The Space Travelers

If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like?
March 3, 2025

Subservience to Progressive Little Notions

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.
February 25, 2025

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…
February 11, 2025

On Courage

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.
January 28, 2025

Lament for a Post-National Canada

"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."
January 24, 2025

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.
January 21, 2025

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…
January 20, 2025

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.
January 10, 2025