Blessing of Unicorns

Looking back with gratitude

Rounding up the antisocial century, the airport piano tuner, the only Jewish resident in Oświęcim, Reading Genesis, and family and parenting.

A Blessing of Unicorns upon your day!

One Unicorn could be just a figment of your imagination. Herd several together, and you get a Blessing of Unicorns upon your day.

This week’s Unicorns consider the love of home, kids doing chores in the neighborhood, the anti-human and anti-God arrogance of AI, and a lore more!

Jimmy Carter tributes, reflection questions for recapping last year and planning for this new year, the writing life, John Wilson’s list of favorite nonfiction books of 2024, intensive parenting, family policy, and a response to ProPublica’s irresponsible blaming of pregnant women’s deaths on abortion bans.

One Unicorn could be just a figment of your imagination. Herd several together, and you get a Blessing of Unicorns upon your day. This week’s Unicorns consider education, Byung-Chul Han on hope, historical inaccuracies of the new Gladiator film (I’m […]

And just like that, we’re less than a week removed from Thanksgiving. This roundup will take next week off while we all eat ourselves into a pie coma. *** In the spirit of appreciating Unicorns for the wild creatures that […]

What makes a Unicorn-worthy story? Monkeys on the loose, for one.

There are pythons in Florida–and python hunters too.

This week’s Unicorns round up thoughts on politics and a lot of good books.

This week’s Unicorns think about the election—but compassionately; and also essays on political misogyny, motherhood, and the 1,500th anniversary of the death of Boethius.

This week’s roundup is eclectic and fabulous.

A few Unicorns for you a day or two early, because the Williamses are at a conference, so this blog will take a brief break until Monday

Another Blessing of Unicorns upon your day—reads that made me stop, reflect, weep, or rejoice this week.

Another week, another fabulous herd!

In this week’s roundup of Unicorns, meet some new books, several author interviews, and some thoughts on the complexities of history.

This week, meet the Platonists of Illinois and the Hegelians of St. Louis, Prickly Porcupine on Natural Law, Inklings on the move, childcare policy, Pindar, and more.

One unicorn is just one unicorn. Did you even see it, you wonder. Gather a herd together, and they form a Blessing of Unicorns upon your weekend! This week, be encouraged to fight despair, read good books (the two are […]

One unicorn is just, well, one unicorn. Gather a herd together, though, and they form a Blessing of Unicorns upon your day!