As if to prove the point I made last week about woke iconoclasm, the Mona Lisa has suffered a vicious attack. “On Sunday, two women defaced the Mona Lisa, splattering the masterpiece…
Today, labor and amusement seem to have a symbiotic relationship. Consider the growing population of people who work merely to afford the equipment and accommodation necessary for computer games. And how many…
Back when I used to do a podcast, one of the highlights was the two-part interview I did with Dr. Phillip Cary on Plato and Postmodernism/Virtue. Earlier this year I teamed up…
From The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St. Maximos the Confessor, pp. 89-90 “We should be careful not to disturb or upset our relations with others, even a little. We should not…
From my Salvo #57 feature, “Cancelling Western Civilization: Woke Fundamentalism’s Iconoclasm is Just as Destructive as ISIS’s“: Marxists sought, and seek, to cancel the liberal arts by redefining them in purely instrumental…
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…
I wanted to alert my readers to the following articles I’ve recently published at various outlets: “‘AI Safety’ Without Virtue Will Never Be Safe.” This article, published on December 19th at Mere Orthodoxy,…
In my posts here about leisure reading, and in my series on leisure at Salvo, I frequently make reference to the “classical Christian” understanding. Classical and Christian are so often joined together (as…
“If you were to walk up to a random person in a busy coffee shop in midtown Manhattan and ask, ‘What’s the world’s biggest issue today?’, I’m guessing the response wouldn’t be…
In dialogue with social conservatives, I find many are uncomfortable using the term gender, because of the baggage associated with it. Some will even insist that the word should be restricted to…
Salvo Issue #67 is now out. It includes many good articles, including an article from Peter Biles, “God’s Good Stuff: A Guide to Overcoming Gnosticism & Living the New Creation,” which reviews…
This week, Vol. 66, Issue 1 of The Christian Librarian was released. This issue of the peer-reviewed journal includes an article I wrote on ways academic librarians can foster contemplative reading. Titled,…
