Many who grieve have discovered that we are not weaker but stronger in our newfound awareness of what matters to us. | Continue reading
may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer | Continue reading
Perhaps most importantly, however, we need to return to encouraging each other to keep commitments, | Continue reading
Tarkington hopes that more Americans will choose to trek that path of fruitful tension in this fragmented world, however difficult it may prove. | Continue reading
It seems that true love has been forgotten. | Continue reading
The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn | Continue reading
“Play (and Watch) Ball!” Bill Kauffman praises baseball as a community-building pastime, and he highly recommends Will Bardenwerper’s new book: “I started going to ball games with my parents and brother at Dwyer (née MacArthur) Stadium as an eight-year-old boy in 1968, and except … | Continue reading
Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings. | Continue reading
As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing. | Continue reading
Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy? | Continue reading
Turbo burns in my imagination. But I can only imagine now in hypotheticals. | Continue reading
America has a crisis of friendship | Continue reading
My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t | Continue reading
“Have Humans Passed Peak Brain Power?” John Burn-Murdoch points to several indicators that humans across the world are simply thinking and understanding less now than happened ten years ago. The lure of AI seems likely to exacerbate this trend: “Across a range of tests, the avera … | Continue reading
But there still remains room for us to read books in community today, | Continue reading
There is not a lot of time for sentimentality when you’re in the final week of madly preparing to list your empty, but very much “lived-in,” house | Continue reading
Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place. | Continue reading
Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees. | Continue reading
Death often challenges our view of the physical and invisible worlds. | Continue reading
There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply. | Continue reading
Save the date for our fall FPR conference at Baylor! “The Tacit Dimension of Shop Class.” Mars Hill Audio is publishing an audio version of this classic Mark Mitchell essay. As a reminder, FPR readers can sign up for a free FPR affiliate membership at Mars Hill Audio. “An Obit fo … | Continue reading
anyone sharing my Germanic inclinations—pecca fortitor!—is likely to embark upon the challenge. | Continue reading
After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden | Continue reading
Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story | Continue reading
The only way for countries committed to The Machine to stop migration will be an expansion of the cruel forces | Continue reading
God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life. | Continue reading
Like the wonderful American writer Wendell Berry, Adrian Bell’s desire for a return to a more sympathetic agriculture is not born out of nostalgia | Continue reading
“Larry Ellison’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust.” Tom Dotan reports on one tech titan’s efforts to remake agriculture from his base on an Hawaiian island: “Little of the revolutionary tech the company has extolled—sensors to monitor development, artif … | Continue reading
Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it. | Continue reading
So live like the oyster, eat an oyster, and remember to recycle your shell for the benefit of future generations of man and mollusk alike. | Continue reading
The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned. | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like? | Continue reading
“Sexuality After Industrialism.” James Wood urges conservatives to learn from Ivan Illich’s analysis of gender: “Illich forces us to reconsider the very foundation of our gender debates. Targeting the sexual revolution or feminist ideology is not radical enough. For Illich, the o … | Continue reading
You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you. | Continue reading
Parental bereavement is as profound as the lifelong changes that accompany it | Continue reading
Cities always import more resources than they can produce. That's kind of the definition of a city. | Continue reading
If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world. | Continue reading
I know it… But we do need a barn. | Continue reading
“How Progressives Froze the American Dream.” Yoni Appelbaum’s essay, drawn from his new book Stuck, has some fair critiques of NIMBYism and thoughtful reflections on the tensions inherent in zoning, but his assertions about the apparently unalloyed goods of discontentment and res … | Continue reading
Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts. | Continue reading
[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions which he has taken has elicited delight, horror, and/or confusion from many. In the midst of it all, I find myself still thinking about the Never Trumpe … | Continue reading
There’s a type of guy, sometimes they're Silicon Valley guys, sometimes they're just tech bros, sometimes they're environmentalists who have lost their minds | Continue reading
I come to praise Douthat, not to bury him. | Continue reading
He seems pleased that he’s protected me and mine. Or maybe ours. | Continue reading
“Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI.” Alan Kluegel turns an analysis of a dumb AI commercial into a meditation on the likely social effects of AI adoption: “The only choice you have here is to choose which machine makes your choices for you. Salesforce promises that A … | Continue reading
Here, then, is my homecoming of the imagination: to hold the past bright in memory, and to love also the saplings and the weeds of my exile. | Continue reading
Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story. | Continue reading