essays

As he roamed the edges of Lake Como, Romano Guardini foresaw the birth of a new world.

Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.

H.P. Lovecraft’s verse advances a startlingly modern metaphysic.

Only through regular injections of human writing can the models improve and the machines stay up to date.

I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.

Au revoir, Françoise Hardy.

Liberal public culture is a culture of polite separation.

I have a very hard time believing that most people can see things.

The ironic result of the triumph of the machine may be the creation of an ecosystem in which supra-rational gnostic appeals flourish.

Camus embodied an existence that was itself conflicted, caught between the vectors of history and lived experience.