Why Weak Fools Can Dominate
The medieval fool was a powerful character. In the nineteenth century, another powerful fool, Nietzsche, emerged. They were both powerful because they both sacrificed all.
Category: History
We Either Flee Devils or Fight Them
Remembering St. Antony on his feast day: St. Macarius fought the devils. Holden Caulfield fled them.
Dostoyevsky’s Mock Execution
The whole thing was orchestrated, but the radicals fell for it. One, says Gary Morson, “had his hair turn white; a second went mad and never recovered his sanity; …
California was a Hot Bed of Libertarianism
LA and southern California in general used to be a hot-bed of libertarian activity, so much so that New Yorker Murray Rothbard moved to California in the late 1970s.
Four reasons why the Right shouldn’t be too distraught by the Capitol building violence
Unless you're crazed with anger or other passions, the one thing that should be in your mind right now is, "Wait, stop. What the frick is going on?"
The Reality of Fr. Damien
God is good, so to the extent something is good, it has more existence . . . it’s more “real.”
Chesterton: Journalist?
He landed that weekly column gig in 1905 and would do it for over thirty years, publishing over 1,600 columns. They paid him 350 pounds annually (which would equal …
Listening to Podcasts at Oxford in 1374 and Kansas in 1974
Do you like those conversational podcasts? It's no surprise they're so popular. People have been enjoying the conversational approach to learning for thousands of years. We just lost the …
Parliament Created the 18th-Century’s Great Gin Craze
And then, in 1720, Parliament passed the Mutiny Act, which exempted distillers from the requirement to accept billeted troops. Every father who didn’t want soldiers living in his house …
GKC on Waugh
Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards . . .
What to Do After You Unwittingly Endorse a Semitic Anti-Semite?
“This guy says Hitler killed 4 million Jews, then enslaved a few million more and used four extermination camps not five. He’s obviously a whack nut beyond the pale.”
Everlasting GKC for Advent
Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that …