A Fragile Future for Democracy
It is my belief that rapid technological “progress” will always threaten a culture with social regress, and that mitigating that threat should be a priority.
In the Ruins of Western Civilization
Posted on July 28, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Byzantine mosaic, Gaziantep Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey; Shutterstock.
We can learn from the outdated Western Civ model, even as we transcend it.
Past Lives of the Paragraph
Posted on July 14, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Paragraph marks from Edwin Herbert Lewis, A History of the English Paragraph, 1894; background: Shutterstock.
Making a new paragraph is as easy as drawing a thin line in the margin.
Cognitive Behavioral Soulcraft
Posted on June 24, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Shiromani Kant via Unsplash.com.
Cognitive wellness culture proposes to curate our attention so that we can better spend it.
Mechanization and Monoculture
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on June 16, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: Jules Bss via Unsplash.com. Field from above.
Any attempt to create a monoculture is necessarily self-defeating.
What Is Going on with American Converts to Russian Orthodoxy?
by
Mikel Hill
Posted on June 14, 2022
in THR Web Features
Image: The dome of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Juneau, Alaska; Brett Johnson/Unsplash.
The circumstances that led to veneration of the tsar and his family cannot be so easily reduced to a reactionary craving for Christian theocracy.
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