Articles

On Nosferatu, Moloch, and AI

Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.

The Anti-Anxious Generation with Ashley Fitzgerald

So I'm wondering where the spirit of the American pioneer, where the culture of the can-do man has gone?

Writing for the Common Good

I can relate the vice of envy most closely with my own writing, because that’s my profession, and I’ve longed to be a professional novelist since I was in elementary school.

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"

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