Jeffrey Bilbro
Editor in Chief
Jeffrey Bilbro is a Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.
Articles by Jeffrey Bilbro
Techn-Kings, Micro-Colleges, and Groupthink
If you think an algorithmic function can have a moral character, I’m not sure you’ll have a productive conversation about aligning AI with human goods.
Against AI Slop. For Feelable Thought
What will it take to sustain the remnants of a contemporary republic of letters on the margins of a public square blasted by machine-speak?
Chesterton, Lukacs, and Joe
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn expresses gratitude for Wendell Berry’s latest novel and his faithful voice speaking truth over many decades.
Abundance, Chromebooks, and Satellites
This excerpt from Christopher Beha’s new book draws on John Stuart Mill to probe the flaw at the heart of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s technocratic vision of liberalism.
Baseball, Gardening, and the Metaverse
It’s been a rough week for those committed to Wendell Berry’s Terrapin Theory of Technology.
Meatpackers, Barnes & Noble, and Wittgenstein
Arthur Brooks draws on Eitan Hersh and others to remind people that following politics like it’s entertainment erodes civic virtue.
Form, Fraud, and Suckers
I’m in the middle of savoring Call Out Coyote right now. Seth’s poems roll off the tongue and stick like a burr in the heart.
Gratitude, War, and Play
Matt Wheeler writes a wonderful appreciation of Wendell Berry’s newest novel.
Seeds, Scribes, and Jeremiahs
Sam Kriss visits San Francisco and talks to highly agentic people burning through a lot of cash to do stuff.
Indianapolis, the Humanities, and Immigration
Brad East reviews Ross McCullough’s new book, This Body of Death, and captures its uncapturable wonders as well as anyone could do.
Poverty, Progressives, and Publics
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.
Brigid, Ozempic, and Stehekin
“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…