Director/professor @whitworth, author @CambridgeUP and @BakerAcademic (contracted), PhD @Princeton, Chicago partisan, latter-day scholastic
Spokane, WA
Joined February 2010
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My new piece in @commentmag (paywalled for now, so please subscribe!). On friendship, its vulnerabilities, and why we need to recover an older way of thinking about this most intimate of relationships. comment.org/venturing-our-se…
November 6. Here at @whitworth. @McCormickProf and @CornelWest. This will be special.
news.whitworth.edu/2026/09/c…
This one is worth reading. As someone who's experienced Great Texts on all sides of the ideological spectrum, this reminder and exhortation is spot on.
For @the_point_mag I wrote one if the most personally important essays I’ve ever written. My experience teaching great books has been utterly transformative, and I think that if you’re on the left you should be all in on it. thepointmag.com/examined-lif…
And not unrelated to some claims I made in my Substack over the weekend davidhenreckson.substack.com…
Some thoughts on what college could be if we take the risk davidhenreckson.substack.com…
This analysis from Meghan Sullivan at @NDEthics in @commentmag hits things squarely on the head: "What we are watching, in real time, is the dissolution of the educational commons." comment.org/what-is-the-univ…
Some scribbles on why good friends don't let you be yourself substack.com/home/post/p-182…
On beauty and its worthwhileness when things fall apart substack.com/home/post/p-181…
Trying something new over on Substack: “Character and Crisis” substack.com/@davidhenreckso…
David Henreckson retweeted
"A core Augustinian insight is that there is no love without attention, and that what we attend to discloses our loves. The poor, Christ told us, will always be with us. What matters is that Christians see them as Christ sees them"
commonwealmagazine.org/trump…
My elder-millennial emo spiritually-saturated top 10 list, courtesy of the @nytimes. Although I feel uncultured at the total lack of overlap with my favorite film critic, @alissamarie.
Not many folks I want to read more these days than Dorothy Day. *The Long Loneliness* just... sings.
One of my very favorite pieces of writing from a dear friend in one of my very favorite journals comment.org/redeeming-time/
Habemus a White Sox fan, praise be. wgntv.com/news/pope-leo/robe…
Feeling grateful for this community of good people who took a leap in forming the pilot cohort of the Call & Character Faculty Fellows program. Thanks also to the folks at @character_wfu for funding our seminar conversations.
Perfectly modulated take from @sckimbriel on the pedestrian "effective accelerationism" of the tech power brokers wisdomofcrowds.live/p/of-gia…
This piece is worth reading, maybe twice over. nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opini…
