Articles

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.

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