On the Meaning of C.S. Lewis’s Amateurism

By Charlie Clark. C.S. Lewis was a professor and a scholar. He was not a theologian—at least, not professionally.

The Loving Ones

A poet reads Auden and reflects on love, joy, and suffering in an anxious age.

Imago

"Imago" by Anna A. Friedrich

To a Friend’s Child

"To a Friend's Child" by Matthew J. Andrews

To a Poet (Akashic)

"To a Poet (Akashic)" by Jason Adam Sheets

[Say “what if?” is more dangerous than “why?”]

[Say “what if?” is more dangerous than “why?”] by MEH

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.

The Spirit of ’43

A cocktail recipe for the end of the world.

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.