Robin Mark Phillips
Celebrating beauty, resisting the machine, defending cultural Christianity, and finding hope in a distinctly human way of life.
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When Ethics Lost the Good (opens the original)
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In ethics, we often talk about ethical problems. But ethics itself has become a problem. Ethics is a problem is because we have come to think of morality in ways detached from the rest of life.Here’s an example.In 2015, wrote a piece for one of the New York Times blogs in which he lamented how t
Tech Dystopia Meets Re-enchantment (opens the original)
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Gaskovski made a splash with his 2023 novel Exogenesis, a fast-paced dystopia that raised uncomfortable yet necessary questions about what the future of fertility, family, and community might look like in a world increasingly dependent upon, and ordered toward, digital technology and government surveillance. Now his latest novel, The Last Upheaval, enter
From the Tent of Achilles to the Table of the Lord (opens the original)
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There is a moving scene in Book 24 of the Iliad, when King Priam of Troy secretly enters the Greek camp to beg for the return of the body of his son Hector.Hector’s death had been a revenge killing at the hand of Achilles, who thrust a spear into the former’s neck to avenge the death of Patroclus, Achilles’ closest companion. But Achilles’ anger at the loss of his friend was not assuaged by Hector’s death. He proceeded to target Hector’s corpse as an object of continued fury. Achilles pierced He
The New Experts of Anti-Expertise (opens the original)
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Reacting to what he seems to have encountered during Lindsay Clancy’s trial, Matt Walsh recently dismissed forensic psychiatry as akin to astrology, reflecting a growing suspicion of experts (a term Walsh is careful to put in scare quotes).<div cl
Context Does Not Cancel Culpability (opens the original)
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has been viciously attacked for her article, Lindsay Clancy’s Cross, with one reader writing, “No you dumb b****. Jesus says we should drown her.” But the objections of ’s more thoughtful interlocutors seem to provide a useful glimpse into a problem that has become pervasive in the larger discourse. I’m referring to the assumption that any acknowledgement of the social-cultural factors that may h
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