The Pathos of Things

The Silent Superpower

Why China does not get the attention it deserves

Oct 19 • 

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Parenting as a Craft

What have I embarked on?

Oct 11 • 

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September 2025

The Metric Society

We've become obsessed with measuring, quantifying, and rating just about everything

Sep 30 • 

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Apps Are the New Asphalt

We are still designing our world around the smartphone, even though its days may be numbered

Sep 27 • 

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Do We Need the University?

Speaking as a non-academic: Yes

Sep 18 • 

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To Lindisfarne and Back

An unlikely dialogue

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

The Future of Reading

Our sacred practice can flourish even if very few of us are doing it

Aug 29 • 

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Heat

Hotter summers call for imaginative adaptations. We won't get them.

Aug 22 • 

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Cities Without Jobs: Africa's Urban Crisis

The fate of the world's fastest-growing continent will affect us all

Aug 9 • 

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June 2025

Practice and Virtue

In Memoriam Alasdair MacIntyre

Jun 20 • 

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May 2025

Enclosing the Cultural Commons

Thoughts on artists and AI

May 29 • 

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More China

Roadblocks to the Chinese Century

May 25 • 

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