Articles

In Praise of the Inefficient

This year I’m renewing my commitment to the sentence.

The Maps of Our Lives Point Homeward

Older and wiser, I have long learned that for all the times I wanted to visit far-away places, there is no place like home.

Reflection in a Glass Wall

The reflection looked like a vintage motion picture, only without those stilted movements.

Virgil and the Christian Imagination

love is the most powerful force in the world.

Crafting the Ideal School: Finding a Balance Between High-Tech and the...

it is through the arts alone that the various branches of learning touch human life.

How to Raise Readers, in Thirty-Five Steps

It is not too much to say that everything in our culture pushes against habits

The AI Invasion: For Humans, It’s Becoming Harder to Write

No question about it: For writers like me, who would like nothing more than to do our own writing and thinking with dignity and intellectual honesty, it’s becoming harder to write—at least on a computer.

Romanticism and the Soul of Learning

Conservatives should reconsider the lessons of Romanticism.

On Courage

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.

The Biblical Case for Conservation

The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.