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Oct 30, 2025 - Brad Littlejohn’s recent book offers wise guidance for navigating our way through these times of rapid change.

Nov 12, 2025 - What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress

Nov 23, 2025 - Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been...

This week, we’re listening to songs about young adults (let’s say 18-35) on A Symposium of Popular Songs. Think of it as a companion piece to our very...

Nov 24, 2025 - " None of your readers need me to tell them that the useful work is practical, particular, small and careful: to get away from screens as much as we can,...

Just as the light becomes a little more precious and scarce this year, we’re going to listen to songs about it. Send me your song recommendations at...

Kudos to Ari Aster and his film "Eddington" for showing us the truth of what is happening to us in our social media saturated world.

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.

Sep 25, 2025 - When will we confront the reality that terrible things can be etched into our memories in milliseconds?

Nov 23, 2025 - Think not, then, of the ubiquitous screens and hideous architecture and suburban metastasis and microwave dinners. Think rather of Eric Voegelin’s famous...

Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate.

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

As Gurney’s family and friends wrestle with the loss of their friend, I hope they—or more accurately we—will lean into being lonely inside a web of love.

There is nothing greater in which to delight and nothing vaster in terms of the scope of His Being or understanding than God.

The mark by which we recognize a rightly ordered way of thinking about politics, it seems to me, is that such a way of thinking should recall us to the fact...

Apr 8, 2025

Nov 4, 2025 - Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel.

" None of your readers need me to tell them that the useful work is practical, particular, small and careful: to get away from screens as much as we can,...

May 21, 2025 - We should all be grateful to Siva Vaidhyanathan. He has endured great pain and suffering to explore a dangerous new landscape, and he now offers to be our...

When will we confront the reality that terrible things can be etched into our memories in milliseconds?

Nov 10, 2025 - Leisure is not entertainment, play, or a chance to catch your breath in order to return to work restored.

Nov 24, 2025 - When does religious activity become characteristically “leftist?"

Dana Gioia has spent his career making metaphors: drawing disparate things together to reveal the breadth and depth of aesthetic experience, but doing so in a...

Rituals are our allies in sorrow. They help us appreciate what brief time we had with our loved ones while acknowledging the years we will face without them.

Matt’s essay concludes our discussion of “Localist Social Media.” You can view all the essays in this symposium here.  When I first...

There is no law preventing us from being worthy pupils of the spring rains, the dead, and the plants. We can mind first principles; we can keep our hands off...

Oct 27, 2025 - At its best, Krause’s writing reminds us that poetry is not a luxury but a vital mode of human knowing, one that can re-enchant our disenchanted age and...

How should we morally evaluate or rank the various choices we make that lead to embryo death?

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

Sep 30, 2025 - Deep down, humans not only want but also require enduring, stable relationships.