The Nightstand 451

We are pilgrims in this world. We must be content to wonder as we wander. Douthat is asking his readers to cast their nets into the deep.

Classroom culture may develop accidentally, but the truth is that a neutral classroom does not exist. Although her apologia is intended for classical Christian educators, Gerth speaks to all teachers

It never fails—whenever Benes defends low culture, he does so in the exact terms that he ought to be using to criticize it

A peaceful crisis response paves the way for restoration and wholeness.

Next time we’re drinking bourbon together, I look forward to telling him that he’s got all the right impulses and is coming to the wrong conclusions.

I moved on, but I realized in that moment that I hadn’t adequately answered the student’s question

Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.

may they receive the many gifts the black intellectual tradition has to offer

Tarkington hopes that more Americans will choose to trek that path of fruitful tension in this fragmented world, however difficult it may prove.

As Kauffman tells Bardenwerper, perhaps being cut loose from MLB will turn out to be a blessing.

Why does our relationship with technology seem so unhealthy?

America has a crisis of friendship

Tolkien offers a cautious approval of brutalist buildings and a full-throated one of trees.

The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned.

You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you.

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions which he has taken has elicited delight,…

I come to praise Douthat, not to bury him.

Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"

Much might be said about the neglect of the history of the American Southwest

Knowledge is a path to love, and so I’m bound to say that the book did change my affection for the place.

“Opportunities that were not available to some due to race, socioeconomic class, or gender became available through industrial education efforts”

One might think that after forty-four years of writing these Sabbath poems, Berry would run out of things to say. But it seems that as long as the trees continue…