Let’s Fix the Pornography Problem
by Jim BanksIt is time for Trump to tick off another campaign promise and protect our nation’s children from pornography. Continue Reading »
Our Panopticon Future
by John WatersIn the world run by social credit, an individual’s score becomes the ultimate truth of his existence. Continue Reading »
Hawley Defends the Public Square
by Jon SchweppeA new bill addresses the nature of free speech in the Internet age. Continue Reading »
The Internet Isn’t Broken
by Mark BauerleinThe more opinions are out there in the world, the less each one matters, including the best ones. Continue Reading »
Don’t Feed Trump’s Trolls
by Pete SpiliakosBaffled conservatives should take the time to talk to real Trump supporters, not internet provocateurs. Continue Reading »
Our Electronic “Life”
by Micah HarrisThe 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 »
The Other Internet
by Matthew MillinerIt 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 »
Internet Confessional
by Clare CoffeyBless 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 »
I Wanna Be Like Mike (Rowe)
by Fr. Dominic BouckTV host Mike Rowe proves you can be be civil, witty, and intelligent when responding to things you disagree with on the Internet. Continue Reading »
The Screen and the Book
by Marc BarnesBooks 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 »
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