The Stump

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 school.

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 philistines.

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.