Mona Lisa, Taylor Swift, and Metaphysics

As if to prove the point I made last week about woke iconoclasm, the Mona Lisa has suffered a vicious attack. “On Sunday, two women defaced the Mona Lisa, splattering the masterpiece…

Digital Amusements and the Emerging Techno-Feudalism

Today, labor and amusement seem to have a symbiotic relationship. Consider the growing population of people who work merely to afford the equipment and accommodation necessary for computer games. And how many…

Dr. Phillip Cary and the Goodness of Creation

Back when I used to do a podcast, one of the highlights was the two-part interview I did with Dr. Phillip Cary on Plato and Postmodernism/Virtue. Earlier this year I teamed up…

Woke Iconoclasm

From my Salvo #57 feature, “Cancelling Western Civilization: Woke Fundamentalism’s Iconoclasm is Just as Destructive as ISIS’s“: Marxists sought, and seek, to cancel the liberal arts by redefining them in purely instrumental…

AI Safety, Contemplative Reading, and the Importance of Leisure

I wanted to alert my readers to the following articles I’ve recently published at various outlets: “‘AI Safety’ Without Virtue Will Never Be Safe.” This article, published on December 19th at Mere Orthodoxy,…

Classical Christian Leisure: Jerusalem Meets Athens

In my posts here about leisure reading, and in my series on leisure at Salvo, I frequently make reference to the “classical Christian” understanding. Classical and Christian are so often joined together (as…

Peter Biles’ Review of “Rediscovering the Goodness of Creation”

“If you were to walk up to a random person in a busy coffee shop in midtown Manhattan and ask, ‘What’s the world’s biggest issue today?’, I’m guessing the response wouldn’t be…

How I Lost and Rediscovered the Joys of Reading

I grew up in an environment of books. Not only was my father a writer and editor, but he also owned a publishing house and a bookstore.  Sometimes after school I would…

Government by Bot

Salvo Issue #67 is now out. It includes many good articles, including an article from Peter Biles, “God’s Good Stuff: A Guide to Overcoming Gnosticism & Living the New Creation,” which reviews…

Academic Librarianship and Contemplative Reading

This week, Vol. 66, Issue 1 of The Christian Librarian was released. This issue of the peer-reviewed journal includes an article I wrote on ways academic librarians can foster contemplative reading. Titled,…

Is OpenAI Building Something Dangerous?

We naturally want to know that OpenAI, the $90 billion company behind ChatGPT, isn’t inadvertently building a doomsday machine. But it’s hard to feel reassured when Sam Altman’s method for alleviating fears…

Virtue and Emotion

One of the worst misunderstandings of modern Christianity is the legalistic reduction of virtue to mere action. In the historic classical tradition, virtue was understood to be about having correct dispositions, and…


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