How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
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Dostoyevsky and Flannery O’Connor Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World
Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Bohemianism
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Are We Going to See Naked Hobbits?
Amazon’s series about Middle Earth is apparently going to be sexualized. That’s unfortunate but perhaps not unfair to the narrative.
Garden Writing is About More than Plants
The biographical, philosophical, meditational, and countercultural world of American gardening literature
We’re on Information Overload. Here’s One Solution
If the Too Much Information Age has a pagan saint, it might be Pyrrho of Ellis.
Twelve Aquinas Aphorisms
Simple observations from the medieval poster boy will give you new perspectives The famous historian Will Durant ranked Thomas Aquinas as the fourth greatest thinker of all time. When …
Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy
The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now
It’s Time We Recognize Noise as the Eighth Capital Sin
One man’s crusade against a world gone loud I’m thinking the list of seven capital sins — Pride, Envy, Avarice, Anger, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust — ought to be expanded …