Members-Only Essays

Is Mankind Really Progressing?

Plato, Tolkien, and technology without virtue

Jul 4 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube

How to Reclaim Your Imagination

G.K. Chesterton on regaining agency

Jun 21 • Athenaeum Book Club

The 3 Waves That Broke Western Civilization

Leo Strauss and the crisis of modernity

Jun 14 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube

Why We Must Think Like Medievals Again

C.S. Lewis's mental model

Jun 7 • Athenaeum Book Club and Beauty Matters

What if Your Entire Life Was a Lie?

Tolstoy on death, repentance, and the meaning of life

May 31 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube

How Should We Treat Murderers?

A classic lesson from Crime & Punishment

May 23 • Athenaeum Book Club

Solzhenitsyn and the Death of the West

The most influential political speech of the 20th Century

May 9 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube

Why You Didn't Receive a Real Education

What the liberal arts were meant to do to the soul

May 3 • Athenaeum Book Club and Sean Berube

The Power of Beauty in The Lord of the Rings

Why beauty transforms you

Apr 26 • Athenaeum Book Club and Beauty Matters

Why You Must Become a Creator

Consuming too much is destroying you

Apr 19 • Athenaeum Book Club and Beauty Matters

Tolkien’s Guide to Living Through Dark Times

The philosophy of Samwise Gamgee

Apr 12 • Athenaeum Book Club and Beauty Matters

The True Meaning of Narnia

C.S. Lewis and the power of myth

Mar 24 • Athenaeum Book Club

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