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Aletheia Hitz
Aletheia Hitz is a student, writer, and invested lover of philosophy. She enjoys exploring significant ideas, and she’s passionate about helping others think well.

If we’re following culture’s prevailing train of thought, we’ve grown accustomed to considering our failing attention spans as the product of our brains. Our culture constantly prompts mental hyperactivity, and our brains are slowly being rewired to crave the instant dopamine hits that online platforms can give. Indeed, the conversation around attention focuses heavily on
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I can still see my manager standing, frozen in shock, by the locker of our retail store’s breakroom. I was seated on one of the room’s foldout tables, and it had just come out that I, as a working teenager, did not own a phone. I belong to Gen Z, so my manager’s shock didn’t
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If you’ve grown up in evangelical Christian circles, you’ve heard it: “John Smith has surrendered to missions in South Africa” or “Timothy Name has surrendered to the pastoral call.” Usually, the phrase involves the word “surrender” along with some widely accepted “spiritual” calling: missions, typically, but occasionally pastorship or some other form of ministry. Yet
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I spent a good part of one summer trying to convince my 15-year-old brother (who was, at the time, decidedly unenthusiastic about philosophy) that it’s impossible to prove everything. It was something I’d become convinced of after reading C. S. Lewis’ “The Abolition of Man,” in which Lewis explained that accepting what was unprovable was
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