Eric Miller pens a beautiful review of Wendell Berry’s new novel and reflects on the stories and structures that hold sustaining cultures in place. | Continue reading
The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics. | Continue reading
A whole-hog way of seeing. | Continue reading
Williams gives readers who may be either loosely familiar with or even quite ignorant of the authors she treats a brief introduction to their importance and what beauty can be found in each of them. | Continue reading
Tradeoffs we should not be willing to tolerate. | Continue reading
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 symposiumofsongs@gmail.com! | Continue reading
In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality. | Continue reading
Christian Wiman’s latest masterpiece is a must-read. | Continue reading
Practices that began as bounded places we visited have thinned into atmospheres we inhabit. | Continue reading
There is nothing greater in which to delight and nothing vaster in terms of the scope of His Being or understanding than God. | Continue reading
The former editor in chief of Christianity Today stops by to talk about his love of Port William and the AI infused world to come. | Continue reading
Hicks's voice is that of a mature seeker, a seeker of hidden beauties and of home in a variety of places. | Continue reading
The endurance of the building itself reinforces implicit messages that foster good character. | Continue reading
When does religious activity become characteristically “leftist?" | Continue reading
This week, in lieu of a Thanksgiving episode, A Symposium of Popular Songs is listening to songs about change. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com. | Continue reading
Kit Wilson describes how the flurry of words that bombarded him via podcasts, social media, and texts cut him off from reality. | Continue reading
The botanical paradigm enables me to better live with uncertainty. It enables me to avoid throwing the choosy female body under the bus. It lets me view my complex embodiment more tenderly, and it helps that bitter evolutionary pill go down a little easier. | Continue reading
McCarthy's biography of Norman Maclean is a splendid addition for the Macleanophile. | Continue reading
An invisible world. | Continue reading
An infinite game must be not only intrinsically worthwhile but also sustainable, and that indefinitely. | Continue reading
We’re talking about transcendence this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and it’s coming from every direction: religion, drugs, death, and all the rest. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com! | Continue reading
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”? | Continue reading
Robert Wyllie writes about Kirk’s assassination and the state of hyperpolitics with the appropriate self-awareness, despair, and hope. | Continue reading
How should we morally evaluate or rank the various choices we make that lead to embryo death? | Continue reading
What has Ezra Pound to offer to the citizens of the Front Porch Republic? | Continue reading
What made the Isle of Pines an instance of regression is being sold to us as progress | Continue reading
As I unburdened myself of mask and chest protector I swore I would never again gainsay a ruling, no matter how dubious, of the fellow behind the plate ... | Continue reading
We’re talking about memory this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs. How much do we need to remember in order to think, and how much do we need to forget? Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com! | Continue reading
Leisure is not entertainment, play, or a chance to catch your breath in order to return to work restored. | Continue reading
Chase Steely visit’s Elder’s Bookstore in Nashville and muses on the literary and cultural traditions born in that city. | Continue reading
A vision of the future. | Continue reading
The national dialogue has myopically focused on bringing back manufacturing jobs, which misses the point that the real goal should be stable communities. | Continue reading
Out here the road doesn’t speak theory—it breathes. | Continue reading
Phillips and Pauling help us to consider new emerging technologies and how we can avoid becoming cyborgs living off grubs and gruel. | Continue reading
We’re listening to songs about crying this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and there are so many of them that I’m only playing artists I’ve never played on the show before. Send me your song recommendations at symposiumofsongs@gmail.com! | Continue reading
Han turns so completely toward wholeness that his writing seems an alien arrival ... Writing, perhaps, not even to be read but simply to praise ... | Continue reading
Charles McNamara wrestles with how we might regain the virtues needed for real education. | Continue reading
The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity. | Continue reading
Brad Littlejohn’s recent book offers wise guidance for navigating our way through these times of rapid change. | Continue reading
Many are quick to posit that we have a wide range of rights, yet we are almost tongue-tied about our responsibilities. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Inspired by absolutely nothing in my personal life, we’re listening to break-up songs this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs. I’ll try not to make it too depressing! Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com. | Continue reading
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 direct us once again toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. | Continue reading
In a searing essay, Alvaro M. Bedoya, a former FTC commissioner, describes how he came to embrace populism. | Continue reading
We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans. | Continue reading
A box by a door. A hand that picks up. A name that calls an object to account. | Continue reading
Practicing the discipline of attention | Continue reading
A room once filled with my son and his belongings was mostly empty. It wasn’t the absence of his stuff that hurt; it was his absence. But as I ran my fingers over his bookshelf, still full with the books of his childhood, I was grateful. | Continue reading