Rachel Lu

If I had time to listen to just one podcast on Notre Dame football, to get set for the season… which one is most worth it? @NDFootball

Have to say, I myself don't want "men." Just the particular one I married. A solution more people should try. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…

The home library refurbishment metastasized a bit, and I found myself repainting the living room. The spiders are having a very bad day.

The Christian vision of linear, covenantal time has shaped the West. It's counterfeits have wreaked havoc. When we lose Christian theology, but retain linear time, we open the door to utopianism. themoralimagination.com/p/a-christian-…

Many questions one wants to ask after reading this piece from @moveincircles. But I guess first for me is, "What do you imagine life under medieval monarchy, to have been like?" Maybe if I understood that, this picture would come into better focus for me. firstthings.com/the-king-and-t…

"Critical theory lacks a well-developed view of human nature. It is mute on the question of what a healthy human society should look like. Its goals are vague and utopian, its critical impulse relentless." @rclu civitasinstitute.org/research/carl-…

The critical theorists have no real capacity to build. They can only destroy. @rclu reviews Carl Trueman's "To Change All Worlds" civitasinstitute.org/research/carl-…

"Trueman has a real gift for illuminating complex ideas in jargon-free ways... but has almost nothing to offer by way of a substantive response." A remarkable book in more than one way. My review of Carl Trueman's To Change All Worlds, @CivitasOutlook: civitasinstitute.org/research/carl-…

The 10yo comes to me with a confession. He read ahead a bit in our nightly read-aloud. Too much suspense, couldn’t stand it. We’re presently reading Pride and Prejudice.

"I am confident that Boyle would agree with me that the most important thing by far is not our precise division of labor...but rather the effort to ensure that the people we love have places where they are genuinely seen and valued." @rclu fairerdisputations.org/thoughtful-hom…

Need a Sunday read? Start w/@rclu on homemaking: fairerdisputations.org/thoughtful-hom… Then, check out these must-reads from around the web: fairerdisputations.org/the-week-71120…

Here’s a fun “driving to Confession on a Saturday evening” exercise. Imagine Flannery O’Connor wrote you into a short story. How would you come out?

This essay @FairerSexFD by @rclu is filled with such honesty, nuance, and thoughtfulness. Highly thought-provoking and evocative for me, as both someone who thinks about these issues professionally and is, indeed, a homemaker (professionally?) Awesome read.

Plus, this week's must-reads from around the web, from @bindelj, @PTBwrites, @jo_bartosch, @IvanaDGreco, @poppy_sowerby, @stephmurrayyyy, & more: fairerdisputations.org/the-week-71120…

"The same forces driving Fitzgerald’s novel—the condescension of elites and the mix of envy and resentment it provokes—continue to shape America’s social life and politics, dominated for the past decade by an improbable populist billionaire." @LawLiberty lawliberty.org/gatsbys-tragic…

Who counts as a homemaker? Do we need more? I warmly recommend this book @FairerSexFD to all with interest in homes, and why & how we make them. @ElizabethGMat @NadyaWilliams81 @helen_of_roy @Louise_m_perry @moveincircles @IvanaDGreco @LeahLibresco. fairerdisputations.org/thoughtful-hom…

A beautiful piece from @radical__middle on what it will take to enable our kids to read. From @LawLiberty: lawliberty.org/why-cant-the-k…

Writing is, of course, hard. But… editing is easy? I suppose, as with most things, it can be pretty easy if you don’t care much about the result. (The same is true of writing!) Good editing is much harder than most people suppose, and definitely not something “anyone can do.”