“The Image Culture”
Christine Rosen on how the ubiquity of images erodes their power.
The arts and public funding
Ken Myers answers a letter from a high school student asking about whether Christians should support the idea of federal funding for the arts.
Technology’s deeper resonances
An issue of The New Atlantis provides evidence that it is the most instructive and insightful publication examining the many facets of the relationship between technology and culture.
The Necessity of Tradition
“If a society wishes to find a way of ensuring that newly emergent and valuable techniques are passed on and preserved, its members must feel themselves under an ethical obligation to leave the best possible world not only for their children, but also for their grandchildren.”
The Truth about Harvard
Ross Douthat looks at the effects of postmodern academic theory on the humanities. “The retreat into irrelevance is visible all across the humanities curriculum.”
Art and the loss of transcendence
Suzi Gablik looks at how modern and postmodern artists have struggled with living in modern and postmodern societies in which there is no public vocabulary for the sacred.
Free trade zone for preferences
Philip Turner examines “the subversion of Christian belief and practice by the logic of autonomous individualism”
Re-imagining economic obedience: lessons from Wendell Berry
The order of Creation, says Wendell Berry, is closer to that of a drama than that of a market. That quality should inform how we imagine economic life to be well-ordered.