Category: Modernity

  • Poisons Unseen

    Poisons Unseen

    Seeking to out-engineer nature, we have surrounded ourselves with poisons yet hardly bat an eye. Rachel Carson realized the danger long before us.

  • The AI race to nowhere

    The AI race to nowhere

    We’re in a race to beat China, but where exactly is the finish line?

  • Missing the forest for the bees

    Missing the forest for the bees

    A technology that marginally grows yields at best but drives an entire kingdom of animals to extinction is not progress. It is vainglorious, dogged foolishness.

  • 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?