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Econoclast: Herman Daly and the Gospel of Growth is a short, earnest, and intense tribute to a tall, soft-spoken, and rather non-confrontational man.

Wendell is that American thinker who, for me, represents the true wisdom of a sacred and infuriating intersection: the crossroads where Real and Ideal meet.

An education in the human arts and sciences involves a present, embodied, non-automated engagement with art, ideas, and the written word.

If you plop a screen in front of a child, it requires nothing of you other than handing over the device.

In American society, computers are never required to prove their worth.

As the work wore on, my hands, feet, and knees blistered.

Most current iterations and applications of AI in the form of LLMs actually turn humans into reverse centaurs.

It may be time for willing churches to begin devoting more resources to the active pursuit of remaining human.

Modernity lays at your feet hundreds if not thousands of tools to make our lives cleaner, smoother, and more efficient.

You can’t have a farm divorced from community, and you can’t have community without people. A farm isn’t a farm without a farmer.

We may ask ourselves how we can defend academic integrity from AI, but we should first ask how we became so vulnerable to AI in academia.

Like most of my colleagues, I routinely familiarize myself with the iPatient before going to meet the real patient. Their story is told in numbers, flowsheets, radiology reports, and poorly…

The promise of liberation from drudgery quickly becomes liberation from purpose.

The negative effects of digital poison can, as documented by Haidt, cause a sort of phantom anxiety and depression for an entire generation.

The world of books is tacitly conceived of as a homey yet elevated sphere analogous perhaps to Tolkien’s Shire. How did books become what Joel Miller calls “the forgotten technology”?

What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress

Leisure is not entertainment, play, or a chance to catch your breath in order to return to work restored.

Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

Technology may assist the surgeon, illuminate the astronomer’s field, or console a mother in her sorrow. Yet it cannot give the soul the perfection it longs for.

The right kind of literature has the power to make the immediate visible to us once again.

One of the most curious things about raising two boys seventeen years apart is the divide I feel in their digital generations.

Perhaps the choice not to have a computer is more a choice not to play pretend.

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

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…