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Piers Gelly describes how students responded when he invited AI into their classroom.

In this first episode of A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening to music about middle age and talking about its various indignities.

Sally Thomas remembers the wry and wonderful formalist poet Jane Greer.

Bernard J. Dobski is professor of political science at Assumption University. He is the author of Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc, which explores the significance of the famous author’s last…

Grace Russo isn’t impressed with her alma mater’s AI assistant.

Jen Pollock Michel describes what she’s learned while caring for her aging mother.

“Food Is Not Magic.” Garth Brown probes the oddities that ensue when people conscript food into an ideological project: “Contradictions and superficiality do not discredit the claim that the modern…

Matthew Crawford points out that much new technology today only adds layers of friction rather than actually solving a problem.

Bianca Bosker dives into the weird and disturbing world of making creatures.

"In fact, MacIntyre’s work is extreme, but we live in extreme times."

“Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025).” Christopher Kaczor remembers the life and legacy of his teacher: “I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as…

I don’t see how any English-speaking student of politics or philosophy from the past half-century could have avoided being shaped by After Virtue, his short and explosive argument against the…