Category: Modernity

  • Where has the “common” good gone?

    Where has the “common” good gone?

    Today’s “common good” appears a lot less common. The American people must remember they are a People again.

  • The Ecological Tragedy of New Orleans

    The Ecological Tragedy of New Orleans

    While New Orleans has escaped the culturally homogenizing force of liberalism, it has struck it in a more crippling way: by severing its bonds with the ecosystem that sustains it.

  • Natural Law on the streets of Amsterdam

    Natural Law on the streets of Amsterdam

    A city that doesn’t follow the order of nature is like a woman who’s “had some work done.” When things are made artificially, well…you can always tell.

  • A Lesson in Stewardship

    A Lesson in Stewardship

    The cushy modern liberal mind has subtly altered the proper definition of stewardship, perverting its meaning and reducing it to impotence.

  • Eat your slop, consumer!

    Eat your slop, consumer!

    To the powers that be, we are called consumers, not citizens, and we should all take serious offense to this. Yet, our nation is strangely unhealthily infatuated with the market.

  • Environmental Supernova

    Environmental Supernova

    Just like the competing forces of fusion and gravity in a star, when man rebels against nature, chaos follows.

  • All the Stars we Never See

    All the Stars we Never See

    In our most glorious and technologically advanced places, no one can see the stars. Is our glory, namely our technology, mutually exclusive with the glory of God?

  • An Ecological Critique of Liberalism

    An Ecological Critique of Liberalism

    Like in nature, our relations are intimately interconnected; our whole depends on all its parts. Any ideology that advocates for radical individualism, like the liberal paradigm, thus threatens to untangle the interconnected and mutually beneficial web we are.

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Truly Useful

    Artificial Intelligence and the Truly Useful

    The swift adoption of AI in ways that atrophy or replace the “human arts” reveal just how far our societal conception of “usefulness” has changed.

  • The Convergent Evolution of the United States

    The Convergent Evolution of the United States

    The United States today looks everywhere the same: cookie-cutter houses that are not homes, non-descript skyscrapers, and the rarity of unique opinion.