Society & Culture
We Need a National Spirit of Sacrifice
“When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen,” Gen. George Washington avowed to…
John Brown and the Question of Righteous Violence
You who build these altars nowTo sacrifice these children—You must not do it anymore.A scheme is not…
Why Snobbery Is Cheap – The Dispatch
The story moves between Holocaust scenes in the 1940s and the Contra insurgency in the 1980s,…
The Necessity of Pruning Our Busy Lives – Estee…
I swore I would never join a book club, and yet here I was, on my way. For years, I told myself I…
Practicing Rootedness in an Uprooted Age – Hadden…
For 28 long years, the sunny southern English city of Chelmsford was the place I called home. I was…
The Kitchen Is for Writing – Nadya Williams
The day after the Ides of March in the year of Our Lord 2020, I started a new (to me) routine: For…
Daniel Day-Lewis Can’t Save This Movie – Victoria…
I felt like I just watched a graduate student’s final project when the credits rolled on Anemone.…
The Life of a Formerly Sad Girl – Clare Coffey
Camus once wrote of the cursed king of ancient Greek mythology, doomed to roll the same boulder up…
When the Latter-Day Saints Came Marching
Two weeks ago, a man rammed his truck into a Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in Grand Blanc, Michigan,…
When You Outsource Friendship to AI – Leah…
When a person is in trouble, he or she longs to tell someone what’s the matter. In the absence of a…
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