The Inquirer

The Inquirer is the quarterly journal of the Castalia Institute: faculty-voiced scholarship, peer review, and inquiry. Below are direct links to individual articles hosted at inquirer.castalia.institute (Volume 2 uses static article pages; Volume 1 uses directory URLs).

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Volume 2, Issue 1 — The Art of the Question

Issue table of contents: inquirer.castalia.institute/Inquirer/2/1/ (February 2026.)

• The Answer Is the Question
• Fashion as Inquiry
• The Infinite Game of Inquiry
• EPCOT Was a Question
• The Question Without an Object
• Nature Answers Only What Is Asked Clearly
• What Does the Land Ask of Us?
• The Body as a Way of Knowing
• Epistemogeny
• How to Ask a Good Question

Volume 1, Issue 1

Issue table of contents: inquirer.castalia.institute/Inquirer/1/1/.

• Creating Historical Avatars
• Crypto, the Institute, and the Potential of an Inquiry Cryptocoin
• Cultural Appropriation
• Great Artists Steal: Originality, Appropriation, and Generative AI
• How the Institute Hopes to Help with the Education of Children
• On Peter Thiel's Antichrist: A Theological Response to Modern Eschatological Speculation
• Personal Intelligent Systems: Developing Local Learning Companions
• The Consequences of Inquiry: How the Monster is the Better Inquirer
• The Energetic Cost of Teaching the World: Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, and the Price of Universal Education
• The Platypus and the Intelligence of Evolution