The Stump

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.

Emerging tools have to justify themselves to us more than we have to justify ourselves to emerging tools.

However strained, the bonds of affection must not be broken.

Pushkin offered not only a sense of freedom but also examined it from the sharpest moral angles.

Small towns not only engender local and national patriotism, but they also create the conditions for the arts to flourish.

From the beginning of its own story, the landscape called Yellowstone has been a place.