The Stump

We are mediated from war—largely because we are mediated from reality—now more than ever.

Econoclast: Herman Daly and the Gospel of Growth is a short, earnest, and intense tribute to a tall, soft-spoken, and rather non-confrontational man.

"Can there be forbidden—or, as I prefer, inopportune knowledge?"

Wendell Berry, more than most, showed the rest of us what it's like to choose membership over celebrity.

The herd: it is one of the things I most fear, not just from terrorists but from my fellow citizens, even from my friends and family.

"To the faithful," John Milton writes, "Death [is] the Gate of Life." Yesterday our friend Wendell Berry walked through this gate.

In our polarized times, people have recognized that somehow everyone seems to like Dolly Parton.

Unlike replacement, diminishment happens in a thousand different ways.

To plant and cultivate good seed is perhaps the best response to this reality.

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.

The agrarian voice reveals Nolan’s most significant and disappointing departure from Homer’s epic.

In American society, computers are never required to prove their worth.