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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 . . .
August 20, 2025

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…
August 11, 2025

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.
July 30, 2025

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.
July 29, 2025

The Cathedral and the Republic

A republic endures only through the devotion and resolve of an active citizenry.
July 25, 2025

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..."
July 17, 2025

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.
July 16, 2025

The Times Can’t Tell Us What We Should Do

How do people maintain the illusion that “the times” are on their side?
July 11, 2025

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…
July 1, 2025

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.
June 27, 2025

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.
June 26, 2025
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