Forgetting the Art of Memory
by Esmé PartridgeThat AI undermines the importance of our basic faculty of memory ought to concern us. It will only increase the ignorance of our fallen state. Continue Reading »
Bring Back American History Class
by Mark BauerleinTimothy S. Goeglein joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story. Continue Reading »
Aquinas vs. Musk
by John JalsevacFuturists exclaim that brain-integrated, silicon-based “hardware” memory will be used to augment our natural memories. Count me unimpressed. Continue Reading »
Past, Present, Peace
by Mark BauerleinWilliam Damon joins the podcast to discuss his book, A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring Your Past to Make Peace with Your Present. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousUnion and Absolution Mark Bauerlein, in his insightful piece “A Less Perfect Union” (January), states that the “Southern generals became idols after the war, and rightly so.” Lee and Jackson were far superior to the Union generals, especially in the first years of the war. His comments, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Claims of Memory
by Wilfred M. McClayI write in defense of memory. Not Memory in her gaudy mythological form, the Titan goddess Mnemosyne, mother of the nine Muses—but memory as the glue that holds our lives together and imposes order and continuity amid the blooming buzzing confusion of sensations, thoughts, and activities that . . . . Continue Reading »
Wilfred McClay on Historical Memory
by R. R. RenoWilfred McClay joins R. R. Reno to talk about his Erasmus Lecture. Continue Reading »
Small Mysteries of Time and Memory
by John WilsonThe small mysteries of time and memory point beyond themselves, suggesting that more lies ahead of us in a reality that exceeds our grasp but which we will someday know firsthand. Continue Reading »
The Virtue of Obedience
by Charles J. ChaputMemory is the soil out of which the present and future grow. Continue Reading »
Time Travel from Your Own Basement
by John WilsonGoing through stacks of old magazines, newspaper articles, publishers’ catalogues, and more filled me with a sense of the mystery of time. Continue Reading »
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