Twenty-five years ago, Vigen Guroian published Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination (Oxford University Press). Since then, the book has become a minor classic in…
I grew up in an environment of books. Not only was my father a writer and editor, but he also owned a publishing house and a bookstore. Sometimes after school I would…
My recent Substack article, “Paul Kingsnorth Was Correct: Why I Changed My Mind About AI,” has raised numerous questions from thoughtful readers. When I claim that AI is demonic, does that entail…
“She walks in beauty, like the night.” Thus begins Lord Byron’s famous poem. Reader’s Digest lists “She Walks in beauty” as #3 in their list of Famous English Poems. The website Discover Poetry puts it…
In case anyone didn’t get the memo, I recently started a Substack called The Epimethean. In one of my recent offerings, “When the Machine Stops, We Still Have Each Other,” I explored how…
How Raw Power Became the New Politics, How Nihilism Became the New Progressivism, and How Progressivism Became the New Conservatism In the March/April 2023 issue of Touchstone, Adam MacLeod described the ideological…
Today I read Michael Millerman’s First Things article on Alexander Dugin, and listened to Rusty Reno’s interview with Millerman, after being repeatedly encouraged by a family member to delve more deeply into the…
In a 2021 article on the January 6th insurrection, I made some observations about “the political illusion,” that I’d like to share again here. The “political illusion” is the idea that all…
Struggle is good. It is through struggle that you and I become the sort of people we are, and it is through struggle that we form the attitudes and dispositions that eventually…
In an earlier article I explored how some high school teachers are abandoning writing as a teachable skill. Why require students to master the craft of essay writing when ChatGPT can produce content…
Now that the film, The Essential Church (a hash of anti-intellectual Protestant propaganda and personality worship camouflaged in sickening pseudo-spirituality) is available on Prime, it seems a fitting time to re-post my…
Dear Readers, I wanted to let you know that I started a Substack. Over the years I’ve been quite impressed with their publishing platform and how it’s integrated with email, so I…
