Articles

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.

Places That Remember Themselves: The Erosion of Memory in an Unmoored...

There are still places that remember themselves. Whose inhabitants know them intimately and love them deeply.

It Wouldn’t Be Lent Without a Bar Jester Chronicle

anyone sharing my Germanic inclinations—pecca fortitor!—is likely to embark upon the challenge.

Collecting Seeds and Letting Them Go

After I collect them, I scatter the seeds on a likely spot in my one-acre garden

Localism, Immigration, and the Ordo Amoris

Take one of your neighbors to coffee and learn their story

The Cruel Reality Behind Guest Worker Visas

The only way for countries committed to The Machine to stop migration will be an expansion of the cruel forces

Time Keeps on Slippin’

God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life.

Story of the Seasons: The Countryman’s Notebooks of Adrian Bell

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

Artificial Intelligence for the Artificially Intelligent

Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.