Harbinger of disorder
Mark Mitchell on Michael Polanyi’s recognition of the dangerous dead-end of materialistic reductionism
The de(con)struction of the humanities (and of truth)
Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb on the skeptical tendencies of the postmodern academy
Universities as the hosts of reciprocating speech
Robert Jenson on how the Christian understanding of Truth in a personal Word shaped the Western university
The vice of curiosity
Stanley Hauerwas on the warning from Paul Griffiths about desiring to own knowledge
Secularization and anarchy
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the necessary connection between law, ethics, and worship
Showing as meaning
Daniel McInerny on how the arts convey meaning
The temptations of talismanic technologies
Jeffrey Bilbro on the persistence of techno-utopianism
Living in a tool-i-fied world
Joseph Minich on how the ubiquity of technology makes atheism entirely plausible
Archaic, but still compelling
Carl Elliott on the persistence of honor as a motivation for speaking out
Still connected to the land
Nadya Williams on the inescapably earthy character of human flourishing