Chesterton and Belloc are not Enough
In preparing a new volume of essays titled Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (1936), Allen Tate and Herbert Agar sought to extend...
Free Labor: The Liberation Theology of Capitalism
Capitalism as Theology
In his seminal work, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Michael Novak provides his readers with a “Theology of Democratic Capitalism.”1 Now, some...
Catastrophe, Technology, Limits, and Localism
Charles C. Mann's The Wizard and the Prophet, published earlier this year, is a fabulous book. Not a perfect book; sometimes, in order to...
Social Isolation as the Fruit of Liberalism
Loneliness is on the rise. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people. Our social media networks may number in...
A Flexible Disposition
In 2018, to discuss America’s future is to discuss uncertainty. It is true, of course, that talking about the future—a predictive game dependent on...
Summoning Jeremiah
The Call to Prophecy
When we think of the great biblical prophets, we might be tempted to think of people concerned mainly with wholly religious...
Liberalism: A Joke, Literally
It’s a bit rich to pile on a “free-thinker” like Kanye West, who implores us to “lead with love,” when the best critics and...
Social Justice vs. Social Charity
The Pernicious Nature of Charity
There is a pernicious force that operates in all societies, but especially in ours and especially in these sad days....
A Digital Relation to the Universe
Matt's essay concludes our discussion of "Localist Social Media." You can view all the essays in this symposium here.
When I first submitted my attempt...
The Bar Jester Goes Off (While Putatively Responding to Matt Stewart)
We also need technological monks.