Make plans to join us for our fall conference in Grand Rapids, MI on October 4 and 5. Ross Douthat will be the keynote speaker.
The Liberal Arts: Take it or Leave it
Let’s point to the wiser and the well off and ask people if they want what those people have–often they do. Many times, those people have a love for the liberal arts.
Modern Architecture: Designed to Demoralize?
Arched doorways, private courtyards, personal craftsmanship, a sense of place, and almost everything else we love about buildings has been taken away by the modernist ethos intent on depriving the public of a choice, as architects are left unchecked to focus more on how their buildings look in magazines than on how the people using them feel.
My Father’s CV
Reading for the shape of a life can be medicinal, especially when we allow that life to diagnose and heal ourselves. And maybe then that understanding can encourage doctors of all kinds–but especially scholars of the humanities–to think differently about their life.
A Passage to — and a Message from — India
What We Can Learn from a Society Where Community Still Matters
Work and Leisure: A Pieper Primer
I am convinced that the busyness of our age detracts from our ability to see the worthy work we do, to see ourselves as whole persons. Filling our days does not necessarily lead to fulfillment.
Do our products own us?
Dodging deceptive design in the age of Big everything
Beyond the Mechanism: An Economist Grapples with Statesmanship
When we refuse to engage our fellow citizens, we are also taking a public position. There is such a thing as non-partisan economics. But there is no such thing as non-political economics.
Limitless Wishing and its Discontents
Perhaps we need nothing more and nothing less than a continual return to the Gospel, via all the means already available to us. We could start with St. Paul’s reminder that “covetousness . . . is idolatry” (Col. 3:5)
From the Editor
There is something Augustinian in Lukacs’ view of the past—that in a real sense, or at least in a manner of speaking, it exists only in the present, for it is only in the present that by remembering we call the past from nothingness into being.
For Nancy French-ism
This is the story of a bruised soul touched by grace but still frustrated by the passivity that others continue to show in response to the unspeakable.
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