The Stump

It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone

But there still remains room for us to read books in community today

Trump, Zelensky, and… McLuhan?

Often we search for new technological solutions to problems that are caused by technology in the first place.

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

Artificial Intelligence for the Artificially Intelligent

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

“Ordo Amoris” and ending Burnout Culture

Only then can attention and passion be directed in the most life-giving ways and only then can a healthy culture emerge from a disconnected and attenuated one.

The Space Travelers

If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like?

Subservience to Progressive Little Notions

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.

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.

On Courage

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