Weekly Recap | 07/10/2026

Make sure you've caught up on the latest from The Paradox Press!

These past two weeks have been eventful. Last week I (Andy Schmitt) wrote an essay on Generation Z and their downward slide into nihilism. I explained how younger generations are losing their ability to speak to other people and engage in intimate (non sexual) relationships with others. I argued that when a society loses its capacity to understand a shared language and the ethics that are embedded in that language, they lost the ability to govern themselves and ultimately must rely on authoritarian techno-oligarchs to give their lives meaning.

On July 4th, the 250th anniversary of the American independence from Britain, Jack Jasper (Co-Founder of The Paradox Press) complied a series of quotes from the great Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville traveled to America in the early 1800s to see what all the fuss was about in the New World. He learned a lot and wrote one of the most extensive analyses on the American culture, spirit, and people that has ever been written called Democracy in America. We encourage you to check out these quotes.

This week Dr. Louis Markos continued the language theme with an essay on Language and the Logos. This essay explores the significance and importance of language and its relationship to God and His nature. Human beings take for granted their God-given and miraculous capacity for speech. This ability is directly tied to Christ and this ability, when used properly, is the enemy of the Devil and of evil. Dr. Markos explains these difficult theological and philosophical ideas wonderfully in his newest essay. We hope you'll read it.

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Generation Z and the Unraveling of the World

Gen Z is the first generation to hold devices that they do not understand with application and algorithms that they cannot control (lest they completely get off of them) and which are not simply a “tool” of communication but rather a weapon against true communication.

The Paradox PressAndrew Schmitt

Nostalgic, Enduring, Prophetic: A Foreigner’s Impressions Of America From Nearly 200 Years Ago

In 1831 a French official named Alexis de Tocqueville started a 9 month tour of America, ultimately writing two volumes of his observations and analysis on the relatively new democratic nation.

The Paradox PressJack Jasper

On Language and the Logos

If reason, order, and logic exist in language—if grammar is neither arbitrary nor random—then there must exist a higher Reason, Order, and Logic that is not merely manmade.

The Paradox PressLouis Markos

In case you missed it: here is the newest podcast I did on High Point Church and Nic Gibson. Of course, if you aren't interested in Nic or High Point Church (which you probably aren't), just skip this one.

Please subscribe to the podcast on all platforms. Next week I am interviewing one of the most famous political commentators of the past 30 years. And then next weekend I am interviewing a scholar to talk about The Odyssey and the American spirit. These are two interviews you don't want to miss.