Our Very Own Lake Como Moment
As he roamed the edges of Lake Como, Romano Guardini foresaw the birth of a new world.
Reading as Moral Formation
by
Derek King
Posted on July 18, 2024
Image: Credit: THR illustration; Iris Murdoch, 1957, by Ida Kar; C.S. Lewis, 1951, Alamy; background—Patrick Tomasso via Unsplash.
Attentional humility opens us to sympathetic reading—a willingness to receive from the text on the author’s own terms.
The Unlikely Verse of H.P. Lovecraft
by
Ed Simon
Posted on July 10, 2024
Image: Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos by Jacob Walker, © 2013 jacobwalkerart.com; courtesy of the artist.
H.P. Lovecraft’s verse advances a startlingly modern metaphysic.
The New Verbal Economy
Only through regular injections of human writing can the models improve and the machines stay up to date.
Françoise Hardy and the Unanswered Question
Posted on June 25, 2024
Image: Françoise Hardy in London, 1968; Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo.
Au revoir, Françoise Hardy.
Chatbots and the Problems of Life
I don’t like this collapse of trust; I don’t like being in a technological arms race with my students.