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Milton may displease, offend, or disrupt, but he rarely leaves a reader unmoved.

He begins the story cradling his father’s headstone, a symbol, as there is no body, and prepares to set it next to his mother’s grave.

In an absolute barn burner of an essay, Matthew Walther asks hard questions about our obligations to those rendered passive, distracted, and poor by our technological society.

Immigrants have always arrived this way: quietly, uncertainly, carrying their losses, adding their weight to the ground.

To state the obvious, college football is no longer “so college.”

A riddle, like all metaphors, stains various window panes so that we can see a picture.

The puzzle pieces lie waiting, and with guidance and help from the teacher, the wonder and joy of reading can come alive.

While the book has moments of clarity, it is ultimately frustrating and unpersuasive. If I were to add a subtitle, it would be Post-Liberalism: A Guide for the Uncurious.

“Big Ag Has Corrupted Our Food System. Here’s How We Can Rebuild.” Sara June Jo-Sæbo talks with Austin Frerick about how to fix America’s broken food economy: “The first antitrust…

You can’t have a farm divorced from community, and you can’t have community without people. A farm isn’t a farm without a farmer.

We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.

The path to a more moral society begins with bringing a neighbor a meal.

This is not an attempt to paganize the faith, but to re-situate it. “Inhabit the Time and Genesis of your Original Home,” he urges.

The film's mystery is a satisfying one, but its pleasures are secondary to the consideration of the larger mystery of the Christian faith.

We’re listening to songs about angels today on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and trying to get to the bottom of how they became such sentimentalized beings. Completely accidentally, there…

Charles Carman reviews Kingsnorth’s new book, and while he finds some flaws that frustrates him, he also argues that it has warnings we should take seriously.

Lamentations 5:4 bewails, “We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.” In exile, Israel mourned the loss of free access to the land’s gifts.

Clavier introduces a colorful cast of characters in the first few chapters of the novel. Luckily, we’re given a character index at the beginning of the book, so if you…

She cares for the Kid until he mends. And what does the Kid do to her in return? “He has no money to pay her and he leaves in the…

Like most of my colleagues, I routinely familiarize myself with the iPatient before going to meet the real patient. Their story is told in numbers, flowsheets, radiology reports, and poorly…

While Moses was on the mountain, the people below grew restless. They melted their gold, those quiet tokens of comfort and memory, and shaped a god they could see. Their…

Saahil Desai reports on the dangers of prediction markets.

Let’s examine some practical possibilities.

Through short and accessible chapters, Crosby makes a case for the inspiration that comes through reading. In Part 1, he lays the foundation—the why and what of reading, from stories…