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Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival ... Writing, perhaps, not even to be read but simply to praise ...

We’re listening to songs about crying this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and there are so many of them that I’m only playing artists I’ve never played on…

Charles McNamara wrestles with how we might regain the virtues needed for real education.

The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.

Many are quick to posit that we have a wide range of rights, yet we are almost tongue-tied about our responsibilities.

Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.

At its best, Krause’s writing reminds us that poetry is not a luxury but a vital mode of human knowing, one that can re-enchant our disenchanted age and direct us…

In a searing essay, Alvaro M. Bedoya, a former FTC commissioner, describes how he came to embrace populism.

We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans.

A box by a door. A hand that picks up. A name that calls an object to account.

Practicing the discipline of attention

A room once filled with my son and his belongings was mostly empty. It wasn’t the absence of his stuff that hurt; it was his absence. But as I ran…

Colleges and universities should focus on forming the uniquely human attributes that AI cannot replicate.

Charlotte Alden profiles the fascinating school that the brilliant Donald Antenen has started in his hometown.

Between places.

My guest is my friend Andrea Kirk Assaf, whom I have known for, well, a few decades now. She is the author most recently of 365 Lessons From the Stoics…

Smith's poem has returned to my mind several times, especially in moments, like our current one, of cultural and political turmoil.

Her essays feel like invitations to look for joy.

I stood amongst bones bleached dry and white.

Amber Lapp goes to Oliver Anthony’s Rural Revival and explores the conditions for genuine, constructive populism.

They filled our shared porch with plants in beautiful stone pots.

For anyone who endeavors to read or teach "Paradise Lost" for the first time, I could hardly imagine a better single-volume guide to the work’s author, context, themes, and significance.

Returning home on any other evening, I might have noticed the gold leaf edges of the icons on the shelf smoldering from the sun through the window.