Russell Kirk: The Anti-Modernist Cerberus
The author of The Conservative Mind opposed modernity in at least three ways
Category: Culture
Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?
Postman called television a propagator of “irrelevance, impotence, and incoherence.”
Playboy Taki, the Riviera, and an Elegant Culture of Excess
The Last Playboy of the Riviera — Taki Theodoracopulos
The Senator Asked Barrett if She has Ever Committed a Sexual Assault
The mere identification with a tribe establishes that the tribe has a distinct identity, but for others to recognize that identity? It’s considered an outrage.
The Flopping Men Who Play Soccer
And Miscellaneous Other Matters I guess I really, really don’t like soccer The Galatians were Irish? Did they drink themselves blind, too? The weekday Mass readings this week went …
These Micro-Habits Can Improve Your Life. Plus: St. Francis, Rudolf Steiner, and The Relentless Leftist
Socialism, including its manifestation in certain forms of liberalism, wants to re-make society and the world along atheistic lines.
We’re on Information Overload. Here’s One Solution
If the Too Much Information Age has a pagan saint, it might be Pyrrho of Ellis.
De Lubac and Nietzsche
“God is dead.” Anyone who graduated eighth grade has heard that famous Nietzsche pronouncement. It makes Christians cringe, but Nietzsche meant nothing by it. He was merely pronouncing what …
Friday
BYCU If you haven’t spent a lot of time with Zmirak’s Bad Catholic series, you’re missing out. The material is flat-out brilliant. Content, prose, humor: it’s all there. I …
Everyday Drinking
I haven’t devoted nearly enough attention to drinking literature, but from the books I’ve read, Kingly Amis’ collection of essays, Everyday Drinking, is some of the best. Sure, he’s …
Monday
Ranking the Cities We took a day trip to Chicago on Saturday. We went to the Shedd Aquarium, ate at Uno’s (over-rated), walked/shopped the Miracle Mile, then decided the …
Thursday
Letters to Children Living in the Present I The nineteenth-century Scottish fantasy writer, George MacDonald, lived in intense poverty. He wrote fairy tales in order to eke out a …