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In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball

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Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy?
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Tolkien, Philosopher of War

Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.
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Between Spirituality and Literature

The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned.
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Watching the Tide Come In

You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you.
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Let us Converse Together (Without Our Phones)

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.
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Minding Laurie Johnson’s Gap

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions which he has taken has elicited delight, horror, and/or…
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Is Ross Douthat Our C.S. Lewis?

I come to praise Douthat, not to bury him.
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On Nosferatu, Moloch, and AI

Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.
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Why Can’t We Be Friends?

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"
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Gárces’s Travels: A Review of Jeremy Beer’s Beyond the Devil’s Road

Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest
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