We have already asked teenagers to survive one impossible visual culture. Filtered faces. Edited bodies. Influencers who appear to wake up looking like Renaissance paintings with […]
There is a phrase I keep hearing in spiritual and self-help circles: “Raise your vibration.” At first glance, I understand the appeal. It sounds hopeful. It […]
hypocrisy, corruption, and the steady erosion of democratic norms while still insisting they stand with Christ. The answer, I think, is unpleasantly simple: for many of […]
This is not a good time for the republic, and pretending otherwise would be embarrassing. The political atmosphere is toxic, institutions are under strain, and the […]
There is a strong case to be made that our understanding of religion has become so diluted, sentimentalized, and intellectually malnourished that it now serves as […]
If you haven’t seen Citizen Kane (1941), here’s the elevator pitch: America’s loudest self-made titan dies in a palace of stuff, and the world scrambles to […]
Let’s be honest: if Alan Watts were alive today, he’d probably be hosting a wildly popular YouTube channel called something like “The Tao of Tuesdays” while […]
Let’s be honest: if a ship landed tomorrow and a group of very polite, very obviously non-human visitors stepped out, a lot of religious people would […]
After decades of teaching critical thinking, I’ve come to a grim conclusion: the greatest threat to civilization isn’t malice, ideology, or even technology—it’s stupidity. Not the […]