The Sadness of the Creatures "Though he predated #Darwin by fourteen centuries, #Augustine of Hippo wrestled with similar questions, wondering in his Confessions, for example, how a good God could have created repulsive insects." Peter Mommsen plough.com/en/topics/just…

Latest edition of Plough Quarterly is off to a great start with this editorial from Peter Mommsen about what nature can teach us (and how to interpret it): plough.com/en/topics/just…

We broke Godwin’s law immediately and repeatedly but Peter Mommsen started it

In which I recommend essays by Peter Mommsen, Helen Rouner, Keri D. Ingraham, Tony Pipa, Brent Orrell, Nathan J Robinson, Philip Bunn, Chris Smaje, Dino Grandoni, Jamie Boulding, and others.

It's going to be a full house here at Fox Hill for the Farming for the Future event with James Rebanks Helen Rebanks and Joel Salatin

To introduce Plough Quarterly's new issue "The Good of Tech," I wrote about glucose monitoring systems, Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation," Neil Postman and AGI, and what my Anabaptist community has learned about how to live well with tech.

It has been an honor and a joy to work with A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton fall 2025) in his role as Plough Quarterly's poetry editor for the past four years.

This will be fun! Plough Quarterly people, it's time to join the fray:

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