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Heavenly Botox: Physical & Spiritual Beauty in Modern Life & Eternity
Why We Struggle to Accept Aging & Imperfection I haven’t gotten botox. There are lots of…
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Civilization Starts at Home: Order, Beauty, and Human Flourishing in a Digital Age
One of the great tensions of modern life is how to rebuild a genuinely human culture…
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Our Whole Lives Are Owed to Tech
The modern world is not only a curse It’s the easiest thing in the world these…
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Agency as the Antidote to Modern Suffering: How Habit, Attention, and Will Shape Human Flourishing
A Passive Age I’ve long been an advocate of agency—namely, digging deep despite challenges and suffering…
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We Have Mistaken Distraction for Rest
Why modern life leaves us exhausted instead of restored One of the worst swaps we’ve made…
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Why We’re So Tired All the Time
Modern exhaustion, overstimulation, and the loss of rest Why are we so tired all of the…
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Friendship May Be More Important Than Romance
Why modern life undervalues friendship We are deep into the accepted cultural narrative that romance is…
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Vacuums of Malaise: The Loss of Attention and the Crisis of Meaning in Modern Life
The deeper crisis beneath modern distraction I’ve spoken extensively in other pieces about the loss of…
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The Modern Fear of Ordinary Life
Why modern life teaches us to fear obscurity There seems to be a distinctly modern fear…
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In a Cynical Age, Beauty Still Matters—and Maybe More Than Ever
Beauty still matters, perhaps more now than ever in a time of a lot of chronic,…
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Why So Many People Feel Spiritually & Emotionally Homeless
The loss of belonging in modern life We seem to live in an age of metaphorical…
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Childhood Splintering: The Strange Grief of Watching a Place Change
The places that shape who we become There is a truly odd grief in being an…
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Why Love Cannot Survive Infinite Options
Love cannot grow in a disposable culture Love cannot survive infinite options, at least not in…
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Why Nothing Feels Quite Real Anymore
Why does nothing feel quite real anymore? Because, to a large degree, it isn’t—at least not…
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Are We All Becoming Narcissists?
The modern crisis of the self Researching and diagnosing all kinds of people in our lives…
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The Loss of Focus is a Loss of Our Central Selves
Why modern life keeps pulling apart our attention Why can’t we focus? Increasingly more, we are…
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A Loneliness Epidemic of Our Own Doing: Why So Many People Feel Lonely Right Now
The foundation of loneliness in modern life People are often speaking about the loneliness epidemic—especially the…
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Why Everything Feels Like Too Much in Modern Life
The slow numbing of the human person Everything feels like too much in modern life to…
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Why We Scroll So Much
A search for something that never quite satisfies Why do we scroll so much? Many will…
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The Frenetic Pace of the Cyborg Age: Why What’s Precious Is Finite
On being overwhelmed, creative burnout, and the limits of human attention in a world that asks…
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When Life is Harder Than You Expected
When life becomes overwhelming We’ve all reached what we believed was our maximum capacity—when life becomes…
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Chappell Roan, Saskatchewan, and Why Small Places Matter
Photo: Raph_PH / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) In summer of 2025, Saskatchewan made its way…
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