Joshua Pauling
Joshua Pauling is headmaster at All Saints Classical Academy and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of the book Education’s End and co-author with Robin Phillips of the book Are We All Cyborgs Now?. He has has written for CiRCE, Classis, Forma, Logia, The Lutheran Witness, Mere Orthodoxy, Merion West, Modern Reformation, Public Discourse, Quillette, Salvo, and Touchstone. He is a frequent guest on Issues Etc. Radio Show/Podcast. Josh also taught high school history for thirteen years and makes custom furniture. He studied at Messiah College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Winthrop University, and is continuing his studies at Concordia Theological Seminary.
Articles by Joshua Pauling
When Innovation Runs Out: The Vindication of Maintenance
The Innovation Delusion goes a long way toward demystifying and destigmatizing the ordinary yet essential work of maintenance.
Jacques Barzun’s 1937 Critique of Race-Thinking
On the heels of a consequential election, and the accompanying commentary demonstrating the continued pervasiveness of race-thinking, Barzun’s message of honoring each human individual’s value while recognizing our shared common…
Cultivating the Skills that Freedom Requires in Matthew Crawford’s Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
Human driving requires unending mutual predictions and constant accommodations for each other. It is in such experiences that we end up with something meaningful for life in the physical world…
The Allure of Old Tools and Vintage Machinery: Memory, Meaning, and Making
Building or re-building things taps into deep and elemental desires embedded in the human experience that in some shadowed sense mimic the Creator.
Teddy Roosevelt’s Prophetic Speech: The Perpetual Relevance of “The Man in the Arena”
Roosevelt delivered an oration he entitled “Citizenship in a Republic,” but which the world would soon come to call “The Man in the Arena.” Every fresh reading of the speech…
Coming Home, COVID-19 Style: A Moment to Reconsider the Natural Family
The lengthy drift from family to individual as the primary social unit carries an alluring promise of autonomy and individualism which sounds so good, so freeing, but it comes up…
The Super Bowl Spectacle Sends Mixed Messages about Women
What was on display in the halftime show was not a celebration of sexuality or empowerment for women. It was an elevation of instinct.
Recapturing the Real: Physicality, Imitation, and Tradition in a Digital World
Our educational approach should include the validation of physicality, the imitation of the master, and the celebration of tradition.