The Stump
American Spirit
On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States
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America’s Most Influential Christian Voice Is a Joke
Insofar as "The Bee" now occupies something near the center of American Christian discourse, what’s crowded out, I think, is an articulated (not just implied-by-negation) path toward holiness . . .
An Urban History of Prosperity’s Menace, and Those Who Sought (and Still Seek) to Tame It
Rather than focusing on an abundance of produced goods, focus on an abundance of productive land; rather than building an orientation around increasing supply, build an orientation around the collective use of…
Making Men for Others
It turns out that while you can take the man out of the Xaverians, it is more difficult to take the Xaverian out of the man.
Gorgias: Plato’s Guide to Online Discussions
Socrates encounters many of the same rhetorical stunts that we run into on the Internet today.
AI is Not Like a Calculator, and Other Conversations Worth Having
We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.
The Cathedral and the Republic
A republic endures only through the devotion and resolve of an active citizenry.
The Localist at the Capitol: A Conversation with Marie Glusenkamp Perez
"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."
Kill Your Epistemic Arrogance
When the algorithm identifies someone as a “gang member” based on human-generated criteria, the model’s “ground truth,” however flawed, becomes a stand-in for reality.
The Times Can’t Tell Us What We Should Do
How do people maintain the illusion that “the times” are on their side?
The Land Ethic for AI
We have long drawn a dividing line between technology and humans, imbuing one with ethical responsibility and treating the other as merely contingent— therefore, technologies are “neutral” and it’s simply how they…
An Agrarian Prayer
If you have ever prayed the Lord’s prayer, then you have prayed for the soil and its earthworms—even if you didn’t intend to.
Happy are Those who Know the Causes of Things: Recovering Aristotle’s Four Causes
Science can only provide partial truths because it does not consider form or end.
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