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Old Warnings for New Possibilities

What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress
November 12, 2025

Kill the (Robo) Ump!

As I unburdened myself of mask and chest protector I swore I would never again gainsay a ruling, no matter how dubious, of the fellow behind the plate ...
November 11, 2025

Leisure in an Age of Technology

Leisure is not entertainment, play, or a chance to catch your breath in order to return to work restored.
November 10, 2025

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A Great Gathering at Baylor

While I was talking with one Texan who was at her first FPR conference, she told me, "I think I've found my people."
October 15, 2025
Cultural Debris with Alan Cornett podcast artwork

Andrea Kirk Assaf on Lessons From the Stoics

My guest is my friend Andrea Kirk Assaf, whom I have known for, well, a few decades now. She is the author most recently of 365 Lessons From the Stoics…
October 15, 2025

The Gin Is Cold, but the Piano’s Hot: Songs About Bars

Bars, saloons, taverns, whoopie spots—we talk about them all this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and I get to give one of my hackneyed theories about Cheers, too.…
October 13, 2025
A Farmer Reading His Paper. Photographed by George W. Ackerman, Coryell County, Texas, September 1931.

Oliver Anthony, Paul Kingsnorth, and Marce Catlett

Amber Lapp goes to Oliver Anthony’s Rural Revival and explores the conditions for genuine, constructive populism.
October 11, 2025
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Writing Is for Humans

They accepted that the law of human judgment was Mercy—after all, that was the law of divine judgment.
September 22, 2025

How to Bite the Machine that Feeds You: Kingsnorth’s Options for Resistance

One must think seriously about where to draw lines in the sand
September 19, 2025

Children Shouldn’t Be Free Marketing Fodder

Shouldn’t we begin putting restrictions on how often and for what purposes minors’ images appear online?
September 18, 2025

State Universities Should Serve the State—Not the World

In focusing on the global economy, universities often lose sight of the needs of local economies.
September 17, 2025

Trump’s Hope for Heaven

Within the context of expressing his desire to help end the war between Ukraine and Russia, the President highlights another desire: he wants to go to heaven.
September 16, 2025

The Last Lesson of Charlie Kirk

Kirk started as a kind of ultra-MAGA influencer. Over time, however, he was becoming a serious man—one with a popular following, especially among the young.
September 15, 2025

The Word and the Machine: On Paul Kingsnorth

I wanted living color, an axe to break the frozen sea.
September 12, 2025

When the Internet Was a Place

Not too long ago, the internet was a place you visited. The family desktop sat in its designated closet or back office. In schools, there were rooms filled with computers blinking in tandem, waiting for your class to arrive and…
September 10, 2025

“Two Liberals Walk Out of a Pandemic…”

I have been hoping for a reckoning about covid for years now, and this book is a major step in that direction.
September 9, 2025

The Wars of Alex Garland

With "Civil War" and now "Warfare," the writer-director has made two consecutive movies about the “what” of armed conflicts rather than the “why”
September 8, 2025

Writing Like a Man

I found that Wink has not simply played haphazardly with an abundance of tropes but collected them together, arranged them in a pile—so he could then throw them aside and press deeper into the thicket of questions of manliness.
September 5, 2025

Decoding Toddlerese and Theology

It is such a joy to finally figure out something my son has been trying to say. Just so, it is a joy when a particular passage of Scripture finally breaks open.
September 4, 2025

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