If you’re already familiar with Ransom Fellowship, you probably know that we love to encourage discussion and thoughtful responses to art. This certainly includes…

In a cover story in USA Weekend, movie critic Michael Medved invited readers to make a toll-free phone call, responding Yes or No to…

Here are two anecdotes, and the point I want to make. One. This past weekend I checked a spy novel out of the library,…

Alain de Botton, philosopher and author of The Architecture of Happiness (which I recommend) has launched a project through The School of Life (theschooloflife.com)…

I wish I could read this aloud to you, but I can’t. We aren’t in the same room, for one thing, which is a…

Why does the health care system continue to fail millions? Why have poverty rates remained the same for thirty years? Why do problems like…

In a thoughtful and pained reflection, “The Inexplicable: Inside the mind of a mass killer,” Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard tries to comprehend the…

Over the years scholars have looked back on Stalin’s bloody and brutal dictatorship and tried to explain how such a man could have done…

In Our Only World (2015), Wendell Berry argues that people must be careful to resist the temptation of politicization: the habit of mind that…

Music for a transgender journey In the contemporary American dialogue about sexual expression, there are increasing numbers of individuals talking about the transgender experience.…