The corruption of the word and the displacement of reality
Josef Pieper on the devastating effects of manipulative speech
In technology, we live and move and have our knowing
George Parkin Grant on technology’s establishment of a framework for thinking about technology
America as the Republic of Entertainment
Neal Gabler on the modern devotion to pleasure
Lex Rex, or Vox Populi Lex, or Rex Lex?
Law professor Li-ann Thio on the theological roots of belief in the rule of law
Liberalism’s self-destructive dynamic
T. S. Eliot on the social need to move toward something and not just away
The transforming power of false divinities
Romano Guardini on the danger of becoming like the gods we invent
The problem with dynamism without direction
Paulina Borsook on the biological paradigm of technolibertarianism’s love of spontaneous dynamism, whatever the costs
The libertarian spawning-ground of tech bros
Paulina Borsook on high tech’s long-standing animosity toward government and regulation
What hath “manifest destiny” wrought?
Daniel Walker Howe on the eschatological imagination that encouraged American expansion
Post-Christian America and the “unlimited technological future”
George Parkin Grant on technology and the Puritan legacy of “unflinching wills”