Are You Trapped in the World of Total Work?
Wage work, in other words, is replaced with play work. It’s like changing from a smelly shirt into the sweat-soaked shirt you jogged in a few hours earlier.
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Nineteen Decadents You Ought (Not?) Know
Men prepare themselves for the next life differently (Socrates: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you be sure to repay the debt? Tiberius: Crito, bring me that …
Pulling Thomas Aquinas Kicking and Screaming into the Twentieth Century
You can’t get through a Pieper book quickly any more than you can fly through poetry, or run through an art museum, or gulp fine wine. All such things …
Misshapen Creatures that Live in the Earth Can Give Us Sage Advice?
There were seven men in ancient Greece who were well-known for the particularly-insightful gnomes attributed to them. These men were called “The Gnomics.”
Dostoyevsky and Flannery O’Connor Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World
Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.
How Many Beers Does It Take to Find the Tao?
C.S. Lewis would’ve said “zero.” It’s the Tao that helps you find the beer.
The Architecture of Speed
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
D.H. Lawrence Taught Me a Lot about America Today
“What,” I wondered, “does that British pornographer have to say about American literature?”
Everything You Wanted to Know about Bohemianism
Other dangerous or perverse unconventional groups also arose and were also put down between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. Cathars, Alumbrados, Brethren of the Free Spirit, and witch cults …
Thank Samuel Johnson for the Jane Austen Revival
Without Johnson's Dictionary,” you probably wouldn’t be able to make sense of Austen's “Sense and Sensibility”
Six Observations from a Habsburg Sympathizer
And that’s how Kuehnelt-Leddihn described himself: a conservative arch-liberal.
Is the New Left the Old Occult?
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
How to Look Like You Know History
I believe it’s possible to develop a simple historical framework by memorizing just ten years.
Wanna Move Beyond Stoicism?
The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level
How Have These Ten Extensions Changed Us?
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.