The Stump

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.

Now, what might a nobler, healthier American dream look like?

Since the birth of public health in nineteenth-century rationalism, the profession has been tempted by gnostic seductions.

We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it.

To state the obvious, college football is no longer “so college.”

The path to a more moral society begins with bringing a neighbor a meal.