The Stump

They, for the first time, saw each other’s faces. They shook hands. They gave each other cigarettes, beer, champagne. Exchanged buttons from their coats. One German gave an English soldier a haircut.…

Dependent Rational Animals offers both a satisfying philosophical exclamation point and a sorely needed ethical and political vision appropriate for the struggles of our own day.

What exactly is health? What do we mean by that word? What is a proper understanding of it?

In quiet Ottawa County, Michigan, a water crisis is not merely brewing—it is already here.

Politics, at its best, requires those willing to risk greatness.

I don’t see how any English-speaking student of politics or philosophy from the past half-century could have avoided being shaped by After Virtue, his short and explosive argument against the then-prevailing assumptions…

Amateur operations are fragile and tenuous. But we’re grateful for a much-improved virtual home.

How much longer will we prioritize a Wild West notion of freedom over protecting children and teens? The truth is, like cigarettes and alcohol, these devices are incompatible with healthy childhood development.

It's entirely possible that many will give up human relationships, turning instead to the safety and predictability of technology, like an AI companion

Over the decades, I suppose I learned a lot from podcasts; plenty of facts and all the “sides” to stories. Very little of those things seem to matter to me now

The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and relations, carried out in the compass of a small town or village…

But the attacks on higher education are also part of a broader trend, which devalues work itself, especially work motivated by love