Longing for God’s beauty
Dietrich von Hildebrand on the quasi-sacramental function of visible and audible beauty
Mythopoeic power
Stratford Caldecott on Tolkien’s literary achievement
From myth to sacramentality
Craig Bernthal: Tolkien asserts that reading fairy stories is a way to ‘recover’ the world”
Loss of significance
Steve Talbott on how technology alienates us from the world
On the re-enchantment of education
Stratford Caldecott on teaching in light of cosmic harmony
Detached consumers of interesting facts
Richard Stivers on how statistical norms replaced moral norms
Conventional “charismatic” speech, in service of the Zeitgeist
Richard Stivers on how the rhetoric of democracy invites tyranny
All how, no why
Langdon Winner summarizes a key theme in Jacques Ellul’s writing about technology
The dismissal of standards as cultural imperialism
Rochelle Gurstein on the loss of “principled debate about the quality and character of our common world”
In praise of childish virtues
Agnes Repplier recalls the knowledge that mattered most in her childhood