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The Age of AI Parenting
Altman, while acknowledging that people can and have parented before AI, stated that he cannot imagine parenting without it.
We Are Not Enemies: What an Iranian Film Reveals About Vengeance and Civility
However strained, the bonds of affection must not be broken.
Modern Man’s Problem: Disenchantment or Desecration? A Review of Carl Trueman’s The Desecration of Man
If desecration is the pervasive problem our day, then nothing less than consecration is the answer.
Running Toward A New Life
This is a book for every young man who has ever hit a crisis of meaning or purpose, despite possessing boatloads of knowledge.
The Bell Above the Door
What if instead of nuclear power plants and radioactive waste to dispose of we just consumed less electricity?
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A Short Time Is Better Than No Time: Songs About Ephemerality
Continuing our examination of time from last week, this week we’re listening to songs about ephemerality and trying to figure out if transient things can have eternal value. Send your…
Gratitude, War, and Play
Matt Wheeler writes a wonderful appreciation of Wendell Berry’s newest novel.
Slow Trigger, Starting Line: Songs About Waiting
This week, we’re listening to songs about waiting, and I’ll tell you a story you might not know about Tom Petty and plagiarism. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
Seeds, Scribes, and Jeremiahs
Sam Kriss visits San Francisco and talks to highly agentic people burning through a lot of cash to do stuff.
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The Body a Virtual Age Most Needs
"You do not find your way back to the real by striving for it but by receiving it."
Rowing the Stone Canoe: A Few Words About a Resistance that Looks Beyond Denial and Hate to Healing
Now, what might a nobler, healthier American dream look like?
Giving Greatness Its Due
What we love is who we become, to the exclusion of who we do not become.
Every Child is Born a Person: Classical Education for All
My background had taught me to view the labels, the deficits, first, yet Mason was pointing me towards the person...
What Makes a Good Neighbor? A Review of The Perfect Neighbor by Geeta Gandbhir
On June 2, 2023, an Ocala, Florida woman named Susan Lorincz fired a shot through her locked and dead-bolted front door, killing her neighbor...
Triteness and Truth: A Meditation in Three Panels
The more I came to know my students, the more the songs I formerly despised emptied themselves of their triteness. They became, in their own way, sacred.
Public Health and the Machine
Since the birth of public health in nineteenth-century rationalism, the profession has been tempted by gnostic seductions.
Vincenzo Latronico’s Cold Brilliance
The novel’s chief strength, in other words, lies in its presentation of Anna and Tom’s struggle against . . . something.
Localism Against Tribalism
We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it.
Revisiting Milton: A Review of Alan Jacobs’ Biography of Paradise Lost
Milton may displease, offend, or disrupt, but he rarely leaves a reader unmoved.
A New Entry in the Canon of Orphan Literature
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.
The Oath I Took
Immigrants have always arrived this way: quietly, uncertainly, carrying their losses, adding their weight to the ground.
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