Students are invited to submit an essay for our 2025 essay contest.
The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn
In Praise of “Old”
Similarly, I believe that most people can tell the difference between ugly and beautiful buildings.
In Praise of Communitarian-not Corporate-Baseball
As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing.
Freedom and Friendliness in Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction
Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy?
“Turbo”
Turbo burns in my imagination. But I can only imagine now in hypotheticals.
What a Victorian Novel Teaches Us about Friendship and Civil Order
America has a crisis of friendship
Attending to Plants, People, and Place
My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t
It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone
But there still remains room for us to read books in community today
Cleaning an Empty Home
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
Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?
Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.
Tolkien, Philosopher of War
Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.
In Search of Solace
Death often challenges our view of the physical and invisible worlds.
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Public Enemy #1?: Smartphones and a Generation at Risk
Haidt’s book is a tour de force. I can give it no higher praise than to say I wish we could put this book in the hands of every parent, teacher, school administrator, schoolboard member, and legislator in the country. Haidt convincingly shows that mobile technology—mostly but not exclusively smartphones—does not just correlate with all these dire mental health trends but indeed contributes to causation.
A Country Boy Can Thrive
You can leave your corner of the country without escaping it. And these memoirs testify to the importance of bringing something back.
Brass Spittoon: Conservatism, Inc.
Patrick Deneen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeff Polet respond to J.D. Vance's recent American Mind essay "End the Globalization Gravy Train" and consider the prospects for postliberal conservatism.