The Technological Society Can’t Save Itself
By L.M. Sacasas. Drawing on the writings of Jacques Ellul, we can see that small adjustments to our practices will not be enough to alter our society’s relationship to technology.
Recovery of Roots
By Tessa Carman. Simone Weil recognized “the need for roots”; Czeslaw Milosz named our age as one of homelessness. Both remind us that our work is always rooted in who we are.
“Exist, You Bastards–For Now!”
Andrei Platonov’s experimental apocalyptic novel about the collectivization of the Soviet countryside should remind readers of today of what can happen when social reform, no matter how needed, takes precedence over people.
Nebraska & Midwest Futures
A Midwesterner reviews Kwame Dawes’s Nebraska alongside Phil Christman’s Midwest Futures.
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“An Illumination”
"An Illumination" by Joshua Jones
Introduction to Christianity
Unlike too many books that attempt to explicate Christianity, Joseph Ratzinger's allows for both the spiritual and the intellectual aspects of humankind by framing faith through mystery.
American Hustle
Though entertaining and even more-or-less believable, American Hustle’s host of con-men fail to work through their own tricks and traps to actual self-transformation.
The New Privacy
Constant surveillance by an impersonal power preserves a modern society more autonomous and secretive than any that came before.
The Dispensible Nation
Allowing politics to drive strategy confuses the nation’s passions with its interests. A return to principles is in order.