Even in a technological age, Albert Borgmann believed we can still have what is real.
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This fall marks Tommy Tate’s twentieth year as a crossing guard for the city of Washington, DC.
Scheherazade’s story is about stories themselves.
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.