Resurrection Answers Body Idealization and Body Contempt

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…

What’s With The Whole Transgender Thing?

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…

Digital Beauty

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…

Trends in Artistic and Textual Criticism

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…

Consumerism and the Wow Factor

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…

What Modern Nations Can Learn From the Sepoy Rebellion

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,…

How to Make Your Classical School AI-Centric

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…

Lost in Thought

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…

Excessive Grief Over Failure is Not Sign of Piety

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…

Open AI Has a Philosophy Problem it Won’t Acknowledge

This post has moved to Salvo Magazine here.

Steam-Power and Venting

From my article, “The Power of Complaining,” The notion that people need to vent in order to feel better was influenced by the age of steam power in the 19th and early…

Disclosure Culture Reaches New Heights

Last week our disclosure culture reached a new level of intensity. Shakira broke YouTube records with a Spanish-language song about how Gerard Piqué cheated on her. In just 24 hours, 63 million…



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