The Stump
Make it New
Our increasingly obvious failure to make anything like “progress” is part and parcel of our failure to conserve the order from which all progress comes.
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Christopher Nolan’s Endless Odyssey
The agrarian voice reveals Nolan’s most significant and disappointing departure from Homer’s epic.
The Wendell Berry Moment
In American society, computers are never required to prove their worth.
I Prefer Not To: Literary Laments in the Age of AI Dead Letters
Artificial intelligence gets the best of me most days. It demands too much. It takes a profession that I love and turns it into a soul-crushing curse.
Katherine Lee Bates and the American Mythos
There’s a harmony between wilderness, city, and farm that Bates captures exquisitely. Separate any one from the other, and you have a diminished America.
What-ifs and the Price of Beauty
I know that the Greenbrier represents more than potential horror—it represents what Americans hope to preserve: our beautiful nation, one worth preserving.
Resilient Beauty
We take beauty for granted, yet it keeps coming at us in an endless display of divine grace and power.
So I Played It Again
Sometimes the things one encounters change the person doing the choosing.
Just What Is a Just Price?
That there is a just price at which an economic exchange should take place is a feature of classical philosophy and Christian and Islamic thought.
Amusement Goes Supernova: Reading Postman Today
The differences between the Television Age and the Internet Age are just as illuminating as their similarities.
Consuming Swatch or Valuing Craftsmanship
The mass hysteria of modern consumerism got hold of this product launch, and the result was mobs and fist fights.
Finding the Founding
The Declaration begins with a riddle for today’s readers.
Writing Like There’s No Tomorrow
As writers, our job is to remind us of our truest selves.
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