Blessing of Unicorns

In this week’s Unicorns roundup, essays on what it means for Christians to be a peculiar people, one book-loving burglar, how to read philosophy, and more.

This week’s Unicorns: essays on living creatures, plant life, homeschooling and parental rights, and trying to write better with the help of two masters of the craft.

In this roundup: kids playing in the streets, the cost of outsourcing hard things, Elisabeth Elliot and the writing of biography, technological anxiety, conservatives in academia, cheese sponsorships, and a really good book I just started.

The Unicorns of this week have landed!

Building a family-friendly city, how to foster free-range kids, building a culture of life, WWII and Ukraine, Bonhoeffer, summer beach reads, education isn’t about you, 55 years of Faith and Learning seminar at Wheaton, and the fortieth anniversary of the death of Foucault!

Blessing of Unicorns: Featuring fairy tales with the gory bits left in, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman battle scenes in movies.

What do unicorns do in the summer?

Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton’s graduation this spring is magnificent.

Where I recommend a few articles and books on motherhood.

This week’s Unicorns include choosing a Christian college, the joy of reading, care for others, (dis)ordered desires, and more.

This week’s Blessing of Unicorns: Liberalism, children, eldercare, the Lyceum movement, and beautiful writing

This week’s roundup includes books coverage and essays on exercise. But it’s okay to read about exercise and not feel like you need to go for a run or something after.

This week’s roundup includes articles on 1929 in detective fiction, our “family unfriendly” society, C.S. Lewis, and saints who really flew!

Behold the unicorns! This week we move from the funny to the thought-provoking and to the depressing.

AI does peer review; walls, walls, walls; family; and Ovid.

In this roundup, stories about historic bathrooms, relationships, war, and a very promising job opening in Antarctica.

Mysterious Byzantine mini mosaics, translating ancient epics, Mike Cosper’s new book, women of the Superbowl, valorizing busyness, pregnancy as disease (or not!), and the language of flowers.

This week’s unicorns include maggots on a plane, WaPo on squirrels, oldest lipstick, Flannery O’Connor, marriage penalties, toxic productivity, the future of the humanities, and the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This week’s blessing of unicorns includes Andrey Kurkov, Cesar Chavez, Evagrius of Pontus, what/where is the Midwest anyway, home births, ancient sea monsters, and modern ferrets.

This week’s unicorns include new discoveries in the history of the Roman Empire, homemaking, medical care as soul care, and lists.