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“There are some people who just make me glad to be alive at the same time as them,” my wife, Hannah, said recently. “Mavis is
If industrial fracking sends pressurized liquid underground to loosen and harvest fossil fuels, “attentional fracking” does the same thing to our minds. Every algorithm trying
For me, this is end-of-day music, music for lawn mowing before sundown, or washing the last of the dishes, or logging back online after the
Our Mennonite friends came from several ethnic backgrounds — Swiss-German, Low German, Russian — with histories of persecution and emigration to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Canadian prairie
The arrival of generative AI on top of algorithmic social media can feel like a pandemic on top of a pandemic for overwhelmed parents, educators,
Their eyes light up at the possibility that they can use their spiritual tradition to discern what’s valuable and what’s not in mass culture.
They blustered, argued, and cursed the confines they felt, but there was real energy to it. They had something to push against.
Beginning with the earliest recorded film, I’m going to watch one film from every year up to the present.
The Netflix show Derry Girls has been on my mind a lot during this stomach-churning election season. I’ll try to explain why. Set in Derry,
