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Christopher Nolan’s Endless Odyssey

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

In American society, computers are never required to prove their worth.
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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.
August 4, 2026

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.
July 30, 2026

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.
July 27, 2026

Resilient Beauty

We take beauty for granted, yet it keeps coming at us in an endless display of divine grace and power.
July 23, 2026

So I Played It Again

Sometimes the things one encounters change the person doing the choosing.
July 21, 2026

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.
July 14, 2026

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.
July 7, 2026

Finding the Founding

The Declaration begins with a riddle for today’s readers.
July 3, 2026

Writing Like There’s No Tomorrow

As writers, our job is to remind us of our truest selves.
July 2, 2026
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