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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

The Quiet Divide

The rift isn’t just about politics. It’s about pace, and place, and respect.
June 14, 2025

Brethren of the Same Principle: A Few Words Toward a Better Politics

They, for the first time, saw each other’s faces. They shook hands. They gave each other cigarettes, beer, champagne. Exchanged buttons from their coats. One German gave an English soldier a haircut.…
June 13, 2025

Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre

Dependent Rational Animals offers both a satisfying philosophical exclamation point and a sorely needed ethical and political vision appropriate for the struggles of our own day.

Responsibility as Destiny: Thoughts on the MAHA Movement

What exactly is health? What do we mean by that word? What is a proper understanding of it?
May 31, 2025

The Waters of Mirabah

In quiet Ottawa County, Michigan, a water crisis is not merely brewing—it is already here.

The Proper Education of Ambition

Politics, at its best, requires those willing to risk greatness.
May 24, 2025

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

I don’t see how any English-speaking student of politics or philosophy from the past half-century could have avoided being shaped by After Virtue, his short and explosive argument against the then-prevailing assumptions…

Remodeling the Porch

Amateur operations are fragile and tenuous. But we’re grateful for a much-improved virtual home.

Time To Tell The Truth

How much longer will we prioritize a Wild West notion of freedom over protecting children and teens? The truth is, like cigarettes and alcohol, these devices are incompatible with healthy childhood development.

Heroic Romanticism

It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion
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