Literature & Poetry
POEM: The Dogwood + 7 poems by Elise Powers
8 poems, each exploring the intersections of memory, tenderness, and the sacred ordinary.
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Philosophy & Ethics
On Nature Rewritten
This piece explores humanity’s enduring tension between reverence and reason, and the impulse to shape life itself. Drawing on Aristotle, Spinoza, and the Romantics, it argues that creation is not a trespass against nature but the highest expression of our rational and divine curiosity.
Announcements
Announcing Calls for Issue II: Blue Spring
Submissions open 2 November — close 11 December
Philosophy & Ethics
Of The Ambition to Become Pitiable
Innocence and pitiability have so far only been defined in negation to evil. The following attempts to describe them in positive terms.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Editor's Foreword
Foreword by the Publications Director. On silence, solitude, and the search for clarity amid the noise of the age.
Literature & Poetry
Short Story: The Reader Digests
A short fiction piece about the self-mythology of a mediocre man.
Philosophy & Ethics
Do Only I Exist: Some Not-so-Solipsistic Views
Exploring Husserl and Wittgenstein on solipsism: is reality only mine, or shared through intersubjectivity, language, and experience?
Philosophy & Ethics
A Liberal Case for Natural Law
Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?
Literature & Poetry
POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About
“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.