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The Gift of Limits: A Conversation with Leah Libresco Sargeant
Pretending we are not what we are—finite, dependent creatures—limits our freedom to act rightly in the world.
Consuming Swatch or Valuing Craftsmanship
The mass hysteria of modern consumerism got hold of this product launch, and the result was mobs and fist fights.
Empower Those on the Front Lines
While students struggle, we ensure that all of our pieces of paper align properly and our electronic signatures are where they are supposed to be.
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Plough Short Fiction Contest
Plough is accepting submissions for its short fiction contest through September 1st. The winning story will be published in Plough, and the winning writer will receive a prize of $2,000.…
Encore Presentation: Songs About Solidarity
In this episode of A Symposium of Popular Songs, which originally aired 22 September 2025, we listened to songs about solidarity, one-half of the foundation of Catholic social teaching. Send…
All You’ve Got Is Hurt: Songs About Arguments
Be gentle—we’re listening to songs about arguments this week, and trying to figure out the strange pleasure of them. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com! Programming note: Francophile that I…
Sunshine Bores the Daylights Out of Me: Songs About Dreams
This week we’re listening to songs about dreams—not in the sense of goals or ambition but in the sense of images that flash across your subconscious as you sleep. Send…
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Four Score and Seven Years: On the discovery of time
In the spring, I was jolted into change. Because that was when I embarked upon the discovery of time.
Pushkin’s Conflict: Between Lyceum and Internet
Pushkin offers us the sovereignty of the personality through work on oneself.
Seeing Slant in the Company of Others
The poet, the teacher, and the student together form a chain of transmission in which what is handed down is a way of being in the world.
Homo Sepeliendi and the Chechen Deportation
Before the deportation, Chechnya belonged, in a significant sense, to the old world.
Or We Could Leave our Bank Card for a Stranger
The surveillance state is meant to be like God: all seeing, all knowing. An essential third attribute—all loving—seems to have never been considered.
LLMs as the Worst of Both Worlds: A Review of Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
Most current iterations and applications of AI in the form of LLMs actually turn humans into reverse centaurs.
The Story in the Ordinary: A Review of Eric Cyr’s Here it Snows in June
There is always more at stake in our everyday lives than might at first meet the eye.
Toward a Transpartisan Politics of Limits and Beauty
Consumerism's troubling impacts on American society are a concern of both Right and Left. But limiting our material appetites doesn't have to be a sacrifice.
Humanitas: Mundane, Magnificent, and Wanting More
Leo calls us to find meaning in the mundane aspects of human life and care. In doing so, he articulates the centrality of limits in the human experience.
A Resurgence of Educational Localism? A Review of Skipping School
Unusually for books on homeschooling, Skipping School is written for both scholarly and general audiences.
In Defense of Our Country: On the Need to Resist AI and AI Data Centers
The holiness of the world: that is the heart of the matter. The doors of perception must be cleansed to see the holiness again.
From the Archive
From the Editor–Local Culture 4.1: The Civil Dissent Issue
Think not, then, of the ubiquitous screens and hideous architecture and suburban metastasis and microwave dinners. Think rather of Eric Voegelin’s famous quip—Voegelin, who said that “no one is obliged…
Spiritual Secession: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth
" None of your readers need me to tell them that the useful work is practical, particular, small and careful: to get away from screens as much as we can, get…
Tanya Berry’s Faithful Art
Women like Tanya bring artistry and honor to everything they touch: the homes they inhabit, the land they steward, the children they raise. These photographs are testimony to the clear,…
Can There be a National Conservatism?
Here’s the irony: a growing number of conservatives realize that it will require the assistance of the State to correct many of the problems that have been created by the…
Cheese Should Be Dangerous
The cheese crafted here came about as a byproduct of a larger whole, the natural dividend of a complete way of life, and this is the foundation of the best…