The Stump

How we use our free time might be the difference between a professionally successful but ultimately mediocre life and the life of a saint.

On Politics, Spirituality, Walt Whitman, and the Healing of the United States

Insofar as "The Bee" now occupies something near the center of American Christian discourse, what’s crowded out, I think, is an articulated (not just implied-by-negation) path toward holiness . . .

Rather than focusing on an abundance of produced goods, focus on an abundance of productive land; rather than building an orientation around increasing supply, build an orientation around the collective use of…

It turns out that while you can take the man out of the Xaverians, it is more difficult to take the Xaverian out of the man.

Socrates encounters many of the same rhetorical stunts that we run into on the Internet today.

We are forgetting about other ways AI may be affecting people close to us, even ourselves.

A republic endures only through the devotion and resolve of an active citizenry.

"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."

When the algorithm identifies someone as a “gang member” based on human-generated criteria, the model’s “ground truth,” however flawed, becomes a stand-in for reality.

How do people maintain the illusion that “the times” are on their side?

We have long drawn a dividing line between technology and humans, imbuing one with ethical responsibility and treating the other as merely contingent— therefore, technologies are “neutral” and it’s simply how they…