On light and visibility
Hans-Georg Gadamer on the relationship between light, beauty, and truth
The consoling hum of technological society
Jacques Ellul on the danger of confusing “technology” with “machines”
Convivial is beautiful
Ivan Illich on “the opposite of industrial productivity”
What happens when the Machine stops?
David E. Nye provides a context for evaluating the prospect of life in the Metaverse
America (not the Church) as the New Creation
David E. Nye on one of the founding myths of America
Politics in light of the Ascension
Oliver O’Donovan on the necessity of situating all political authority within redemptive history
The life of the wise man should be social
Jean Bethke Elshtain on St. Augustine’s understanding of the shape of human relationality
The rise of God as capricious and willful
Jean Bethke Elshtain on the effects of nominalism on the Western understanding of divine (and human) sovereignty
Haunted by entropy
John Patrick Diggins on Henry Adams’s fear that “science will wreck us.”
The problem of authority is the problem of unbelief
John Patrick Diggins on Max Weber’s struggle to imagine social order without authority