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  • Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’

    Building for the Future: Wendell Berry’s Poem ‘A Vision’3

    Often, we want quick fixes. We live in the tyranny of the present moment, and it’s hard for us to take a long-term view of history and our own moment within it. Most things take time—especially good things, like restorations and healing and growth. But we become impatient. We want results now. We lose hope.

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  • Building an America We Are Proud Of

    Building an America We Are Proud Of1

    R.C. Sherriff, the late English writer, had a talent for depicting the mundane in a way that celebrated life. His writing, characterized by an understated style, provides a deep understanding of human nature. In his 1931 novel, The Fortnight In September, he tells the story of a lower-middle-class family taking their annual holiday at a

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  • Building America’s Tower of Babel

    Building America’s Tower of Babel1

    In C.S. Lewis’s novel about totalitarianism, That Hideous Strength, we find this line, “Qui verbum Dei contempserunt, eis auferetur etiam verbum hominis,” which translates, “They that have despised the word of God, from them shall the word of man also be taken away.” This line occurs in a passage during which an elite who dreamed

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  • Bud Light’s ‘Dilly Dilly’ Commercial is Ingenious

    Bud Light’s ‘Dilly Dilly’ Commercial is Ingenious0

    Sometimes a commercial appears that both shatters a paradigm and creates a popular meme that truly sticks. The genius is undeniable but extremely hard to manufacture from a formula. It just works. Think of “I’d like to teach the world to sing,” “Where’s the beef?”, “Mikey likes it!”, and “Do you have any Grey Poupon?”

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  • Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense

    Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense4

    “Stupid is as stupid does.” That saying, popularized by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, has been around a good while. The expression means that a person’s intelligence can be judged by his actions. Someone can have a law degree from Yale, but if he drives his car at 35 mph on an acceleration ramp while

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  • Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow

    Bubble-Wrapping Children: School Bans Students from Touching Snow0

    Several years ago, the now world-famous clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson made a list of 32 rules for living and posted them on Quora. Those rules became so popular that Peterson fleshed out a handful of them in the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Peterson’s original list was headed by a simple

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