1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (321+ words) As we peered over a lookout, taking in the scenery, my three-year-old son said to me, “Can you do statues touch the sky one?” I was confused. “What?” “Like statues touch the sky,” he said. I finally realized that he…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (221+ words) Here, then, are half a dozen thoughts about the kind of education that could incorporate what BMCC’s shattered Icarus could teach us. I am writing about them not because I know how to live up to them but because I…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (935+ words) Jeffrey Bilbro is an Associate Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1403+ words) is the Very Best Artificial Intelligence for All Pain Psychic and Bodily! Say Goodbye to the Burden of the Free Exercise of the Moral Sense! Say Goodbye to the Cumbersome Messiness of Democracy! Say Goodbye to the Vicious Stress of…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (450+ words) In the end, Baraka’s isolationist refusal to collaborate with whites and to rely on state support, and his generally antagonistic ethos, made his movement unsustainable. Yet for a period of time, it functioned to effectively recover and mobilize the agency…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (689+ words) Then he said, “We need to go back to analog, Dad.” I laughed and suggested going straight to rotary phones. He smiled briefly, then returned to his point. Then she changed her mind. She chose a boy with a car…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (213+ words) “A Chatbot-Free Childhood Will Be a Status Symbol.” Dana Suskind proposes that AI will be like junk food, and that those with fewer social resources will suffer the most: “what keeps me up at night is the possibility that we’ll…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (138+ words) Image Credit: Norman Rockwell, “Lift Up Thine Eyes” (1965) Rebecca Skabelund lives and works with her family on a small farm in central Utah. She and her husband write a joint Substack called Worthless Thoughts. Richard Spencer: "I guess I just…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1281+ words) Maelin is good at her job, but she harbors a secret, and she suffers from recurring nightmares of looking for a lost child in the snow. Exogenesis is a fast-paced read, a well-spun adventure. But the thing that struck me…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (692+ words) Australia is a land of tremendous beauty, uniquely blessed. Fences, I discovered, are ubiquitous in the land down under. Stiles for climbing over them have yet to be adopted there, and in crossing them, my ingenuity was severely challenged on…...