The Stump
Amusement Goes Supernova: Reading Postman Today
The differences between the Television Age and the Internet Age are just as illuminating as their similarities.
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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.
Pushkin’s Conflict: Between Lyceum and Internet
Pushkin offers us the sovereignty of the personality through work on oneself.
Toward a Transpartisan Politics of Limits and Beauty
Consumerism's troubling impacts on American society are a concern of both Right and Left. But limiting our material appetites doesn't have to be a sacrifice.
In Defense of Our Country: On the Need to Resist AI and AI Data Centers
The holiness of the world: that is the heart of the matter. The doors of perception must be cleansed to see the holiness again.
AI Data Centers, Exponential Growth, and the “J Curve” from Hell
AI may be perceived as an “immaterial” technology, but it totally depends on data centers that have intense physical demands.
What Hero Can Defeat the Hydra with a Thousand Faces?
The hydra we face is not only hard to defeat; it’s hard to define.
Pat Buchanan, Subsidiarity, and the Fractured Religious Right
Buchanan’s fusion of Catholic subsidiarity and anti-globalism reveals the enduring fractures within the Religious Right that still shape today’s populist divides.
Trump and the Furies of Empire
Trump, in his crude way, is forcing us to confront the false stories we have told ourselves about who we are.
American Gospel
Are our first principles as Americans, as humans, as creatures, sifted and rightly laid down?
Forsaking Success: Wendell Berry’s Return to Kentucky
As one Kentuckian wondered, why would he give up the “glitz and glamour” elsewhere to come back home to farm?
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