Scott Raines

No, Kendall Jenner and Tom Brady don’t want to be your friend. And the chatbots aren’t real, no matter what they say.

By Scott Raines

Opinion

The ‘God-sized hole’ in the American university

Many Americans now believe that the liberal arts are a waste of time and money. Is this because we’ve strayed from the purpose of higher ed?

By Scott Raines

Perspective

Perspective: What Harry Potter birthday celebrations say about fiction — and reality

Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about the world than non-fiction books.

By Scott Raines

Perspective

Perspective: Progressives, C.S. Lewis and the ‘problem of pain’

Some philosophers believe it’s not only possible, but necessary, to eliminate all physical and emotional pain. But what kind of life would that be?

By Scott Raines

Illustration of AirPods with smoke coming out of them

Perspective

Perspective: The noise pollution we inflict on ourselves

We are drowning out the voices of those we love in favor of the voices of people who know nothing about us.

By Scott Raines

Last Generation environmentalists show a banner against the use of fossil fuels in the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Sunday, May 21, 2023.

Perspective

Climate activists and their war on art

In desecrating art, like Rome’s Trevi Fountain, climate activists strike at the earthly manifestations of the divine.

By Scott Raines

Perspective

Perspective: Why all women deserve our attention and love on Mother’s Day

Mothers are the angels in the wilderness around us, and our children depend on them — as does the world.

By Scott Raines

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Perspective

The dressing down of America

Our clothes are a measure of our cultural health. In our society of sweats, the prognosis is not good

By Scott Raines

Fyodor Dostoevsky, in his book “The Idiot,” reveals the beauty of life in the face of immense suffering.

Perspective

Perspective: What Dostoevsky can teach us about suffering and faith

Standing before a painting that showed the humanity of the crucified Christ, the Russian novelist was said to be “dumbstruck.”

By Scott Raines

Perspective

Perspective: We need holy days, not just holidays

In centuries past, holidays were days of holiness, not just time off work. This helps to explain why so many people today fail to find rest.

By Scott Raines

Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition, March 9, 2020, in Washington.

Perspective

Perspective: Is the future of education an online platform with roots in a school that Elon Musk started at SpaceX?

Companies like Synthesis teach real-life skills such as dealing with failure and risk.

By Scott Raines

Perspective

Perspective: The great American patriarch and why he still matters today

George Washington had no biological children, but we are his legacy, and we separate ourselves from him at our peril.

By Scott Raines

Perspective

Perspective: A future for me and not for thee — the hubris of transhumanism

Some researchers in longevity science are trying to bypass the biological limits of the human body with no regard for the soul.

By Scott Raines

An emotional Roger Federer, left, sits alongside his playing partner Rafael Nadal after their Laver Cup doubles match Sept. 23, 2022.

Perspective

Perspective: On tennis, the Australian Open and the ‘widowhood effect’

The tennis stars showed the importance of rivals in our personal development — and what we lose when we resist all opposition.

By Scott Raines

“The Chase of the Bowhead Whale” is a 1909 painting by Clifford Warren Ashley on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts.

Perspective

Perspective: Painting Moby-Dick

By Scott Raines

Perspective

ChatGPT and the future of art

The technology is revolutionary, but the world will still need its Melvilles, Faulkners and da Vincis.

By Scott Raines