How many more people have to die before we wake up to the dangers of robotics? That is a question that Nicholas Carr explored in his 2015 book about automation, The Glass…
I often have occasion to return to the wisdom of Metropolitan Jonah, particularly his talk “Do Not Resent, Do not React, Keep Inner Stillness.” Here is what the retired Metropolitan has to…
In my book Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation (now available), I discuss the practical difference that resurrection makes to how we think about the body and ourselves as physical beings. From chapter…
So what is the actual disagreement regarding transgender anthropology between the right and the left? Nobody seems to know. Trans activists don’t know what they believe, social conservatives don’t know what trans…
From Byung-Chul Han’s Saving Beauty: Natural beauty is opposed to digital beauty. In digital beauty the negativity of the other is entirely removed. It is therefore perfectly smooth. It is not meant to…
In yesterday’s post, “Consumerism and the Wow Factor,” I ended by hinting that if our subjective reaction is artworks is all that matters—as indeed must be the case when the consumerist imperative…
In 2013, Jeff Koons’ sculpture, “Balloon Dog (Orange),” sold at auction for $58.4 million, the most ever paid for a sculpture by a living artist. Made from mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent…
In 1857, a group of British civilians and soldiers were brutally massacred in India following a revolt against the East India Company known as the Sepoy Rebellion. Women and children were shot,…
I wrote earlier about the need to bring ChatGPT into the classroom of classical Christian schools in the context of teaching information literacy. But that is just the beginning of creating AI-centric…
Zena Hitz published Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life to draw our attention back to the permanent things—to human activities that have intrinsic value for what they are, in…
In Chapter 2 of my book Gratitude in Life’s Trenches, I discuss how spiritually unfruitful it is to beat ourselves up over our sin, or to engage in excessive grief and turmoil…
