Internet

The Internet Isn’t Broken

The more opinions are out there in the world, the less each one matters, including the best ones. Continue Reading »

26 May 2017

Don’t Feed Trump’s Trolls

Baffled conservatives should take the time to talk to real Trump supporters, not internet provocateurs. Continue Reading »

18 Aug 2016

The internet has undercut the market for real-world experience. While the price of experience has held steady—or nearly so—the internet has drastically reduced the price of information. Continue Reading »

21 Jul 2016

The Other Internet

by Matthew Milliner

It is not the labor that is divided; but the men,” complains the author. Society produces “morbid thinkers, and miserable workers” because we have separated thought from labor in pursuit of a destructive freedom. What we need instead is a countercultural submission to the patterns of creation, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2016

Internet Confessional

by Clare Coffey

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned; it has been one day since my last confession.Three times I participated in an argument about trigger warnings. Each time I swore it was my last.Once I replied “lol i’m not mad, it’s just funny to me” Father, I was super mad.I read an article about whether . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Dec 2015

I Wanna Be Like Mike (Rowe)

by Dominic Bouck, O.P.

TV host Mike Rowe proves you can be be civil, witty, and intelligent when responding to things you disagree with on the Internet. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2015

The Screen and the Book

by Marc Barnes

Books are solid. This is at once a physical description and a metaphysical one, and it is on this metaphysical solidity that we ought to ground our loyalty to the book over and against the allure of the ever-changing screen.A book is solid in the warm way a friend is solid: direct, dependable, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2015

The Dangers of Internet Orthodoxy

by Ivan Plis

Three years ago or so I received a Facebook message from a thoughtful young friend-of-a-friend. After studying Christian history, she concluded that she knew too little about the Orthodox Church, so I answered her questions as best I could.I also admonished her to discover the Church through its . . . . Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2014

Defining Discourse Down

by Kevin DeYoung

No one has mistaken our day as an age of powerful, rational discourse. The McLaughlin Group doesn’t usually evoke memories of Lincoln-Douglas, and Twittering about your favorite bagel from Panera isn’t exactly correspondence on the level of John and Abigail Adams.But perhaps I’m being unfair. . . . . Continue Reading »

20 May 2009