The U.P. possesses some quality that, in a particular and privileged way among America’s territories, points on a natural level to the supernatural. So, this is your invitation: book a trip to Marquette or Escanaba or Sault Ste Marie, rent a car, and drive – into the wilderness, into town, whatever – until inspiration strikes.

John-Paul Heil on the literature of the Upper Peninsula

There is no fate a human being can face that will render bringing them into the world immoral…. But it can be a moral failure to knowingly bring a child into the world and not be ready to address, in whatever way you can, the challenges they will face.

Anthony Shoplik interviews Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman

For most of human history, people understood themselves intergenerationally, as having a past and having a future that extended beyond their lives and that they would be directly contributing to bringing about.

Anthony Shoplik interviews Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman

The popularity of Hacks speaks to our moment, in which adult child estrangement is fairly common.

Elizabeth Stice on modern intergenerational humor

The story of modernity is not so much that we have expelled the gods and that their throne sits empty but rather that it has been filled with a new god.

Grant Martsolf and Brandon Daily conclude their series from The Savage Collective

Flourishing consists of the realization of basic, natural goods constitutive of human personhood emerging from our nature as fully embodied souls.

Grant Martsolf sets the scope of The Savage Collective

Episode 2.4 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is live!

Everyday life—that boring and mundane, trivial and profane measure of our existence—assumed tremendous significance when modern artists like Vermeer gave depth perception to our daily doings.

Joshua Hren on ordinary time in art and the Gospels

Today, the very nature and purpose of the family snapshot has changed. What does it mean that the majority of our pictures of family have become dematerialized?

Arthur Aghajanian on family photographs and the transcendent