The Stump

Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.

Only then can attention and passion be directed in the most life-giving ways and only then can a healthy culture emerge from a disconnected and attenuated one.

If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like?

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.

I can relate the vice of envy most closely with my own writing, because that’s my profession, and I’ve longed to be a professional novelist since I was in elementary school.

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.

"Canada has become a country much practiced at outrage."

With the current state of sports betting, companies have managed to secure a largely unregulated, highly profitable, vice-driven field of operations.

As long as we do live philosophical lives and share in that life with others, we can sprout a philosophical culture from the ruins of the one dominated by the philistines.

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.

President Carter showed what was possible when people came together for a cause and acted out of decency.

Whenever we see such an avoidance of questions like these, we are witnessing someone protecting an ideological dream world.