The Stump

AI may be perceived as an “immaterial” technology, but it totally depends on data centers that have intense physical demands.

The hydra we face is not only hard to defeat; it’s hard to define.

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, in his crude way, is forcing us to confront the false stories we have told ourselves about who we are.

Are our first principles as Americans, as humans, as creatures, sifted and rightly laid down?

As one Kentuckian wondered, why would he give up the “glitz and glamour” elsewhere to come back home to farm?

What might be gained by viewing Nisbet’s different forms of community as being in a conversation, rather than in a competition?

My real fear is not so much that the Internet makes us bad readers, but that it makes us bad writers.

What will it take to sustain the remnants of a contemporary republic of letters on the margins of a public square blasted by machine-speak?

A healing vision for America, Orr suggests in his writings, is one faithful to the great nearby, to the gospel of the local.

Maybe we ought to use our being and thinking not to decide what our lives should be “for” or “against,” but rather what we would like our lives to define.

Altman, while acknowledging that people can and have parented before AI, stated that he cannot imagine parenting without it.