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

What is Flourishing? What is good work?

Grant Martsolf and Brandon Daily introduce The Savage Collective

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in July 2024 on our modern life.

Williams’ work is not just a historical treatise but a call to deep introspection about what it means to live out one’s faith amidst the pressures of any culture that has a different telos than one’s religion.

LuElla D'Amico reviews Nadya Williams’ latest work

“Our times have fallen out of tune with simplicity.”

Michael Golec on typographical modernity

Mateusz Stróżyński on Owen Barfield, whose philosophy and poetry are “indispensable… for those who want to go beyond the present spiritual and cultural crisis.”

Murder is a real conundrum for modern humans. Officially, we are against it.

Elizabeth Stice on the violence at the heart of modern life

Despite the arrogance of modern thinkers and the mountains of data tech companies collect about us, they still fail to know us deeply.

Charles R. Martelle offer a principal’s view on a modern crisis of attention

“I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.”

Ayman Hareez Muhammad Adib on the modern subject’s self-theft

On his journey home, Merrill adapts to the conventions of the upper-class in hopes of carving his own place within it.

Ayman Hareez Muhammad Adib on an eight-mile journey through backyard swimming pools

On Virginia Woolf’s thirty-third birthday, she and Leonard Woolf made three significant decisions over tea: they would purchase a house in Richmond, acquire a bulldog named John, and buy a printing press.

Reanna Brooks on The Hogarth Press

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in May 2024 on our modern life.

Either humanity, and thus each and every human, has dignity in its current state, or it, and by extension we, can never claim to have, or give, dignity.

John P. Slattery offers a genealogy of eugenics

For all its parallels to Christ’s passion, The Old Man and the Sea is no allegory but something deeper, a tale which reveals how suffering may be spun into wisdom.

Daniel Fitzpatrick on Paschal elements in Hemingway

Though Beef does not end with a “born again” moment, it points us to the hunger for one.

Elizabeth Stice on two artistic windows into ourselves and our times

Beef draws attention to the hamster wheel of our America today.

Elizabeth Stice on two artistic windows into ourselves and our times

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in April 2024 on our modern life.

Like many of her contemporaries, Marianne Moore became fascinated by all things Chinese as a young adult and sought to incorporate Chinese imagery, ideals, and philosophy into her own work.

Xiamara Hohman on Mei Lanfang’s effect on Marianne Moore

Every spoken word was a pilgrim, in some sense, passing through the valley of the shadow of death.

Lauren Spohn ponders death from the dentist’s chair