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
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…
Economic Republicanism, the Second Amendment, and Isolation
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.
Memorization, Gamification, Sanctification
James Pogue, one of the best journalists writing today, profiles a Washington representative with an unconventional approach.
Dorothy Day, Tanya Berry, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
Kristin M. Collier contemplates the practice of medicine predicated on a creaturely view of persons.
Inheriting Wisdom’s Mansion: A Review of An Invitation to the Liberal Arts
Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.