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Killing Trappist Beer

Drinking, Religion
Friday's "Drinking Matters" regular column. This week: Belgian Trappist beer.
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Oh Mighty TDE Seer

Books, Briefs, Religion
My 2009 notes about James Martin's first book.
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One Vicious Author

Books
Novelist Patricia Highsmith was an awful person.
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Getting Naked with Old People and Consulting Young People

Culture
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The 55-year-old Paulina Porizkova gets naked. The immature are deemed wise. It's a topsy-turvy world.
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Solzhenitsyn Saw Cancel Culture

Current Affairs, History, Literature
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Robert Wagner at The New Criterion, writing about Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel.
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McLuhan Sighting

Briefs
"Philosophize This" dedicates its current episode to Marshall McLuhan
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How to be a Good Agrarian

Gardening, Literature
Agrarian advice from Michael Jordan.
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Nine Times Over the Legal Limit

Blog
Drinking matters
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The Silver Rule Comes to Wall Street

Current Affairs, Economics
Is the big game this week silver?
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Did We Just See a Red Swan?

Current Affairs, Economics, Featured
Reddit, GameStop, Stimulus, and Two Things to Do If You Want to Survive and Thrive in the Age of the Black Swan
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Three Things We Know About the Amazon LOTR Series

Books, Entertainment
Late 2020 release date, no Legolas, no Peter Jackson, and definitely set in the Second Age.
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The Tolkien Companion

Literature
St. Martin Press released a Tolkien dictionary . . . a year before The Silmarillion came out. Ouch.
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  • Nine Times Over the Legal Limit
    Drinking matters

Featured

  • If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him
    Zen might help with your existential struggle.
  • How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance
    In this age of uncertainty, you need beliefs and practices but not dogmas and preaching. Develop a stance, but be aware that you're on sand, not a stump.
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    The Revolt Against Essence
    Getting to know the most popular philosophy of the 20th century. There's a reason Zen, Kerouac, Salinger, and Forrest Gump were, and continue to be, so popular.
  • This Might Be the Best Book of the 21st Century
    Kauffman’s is a real message. Partially Quixotic, partially crucial . . . and there’s considerable overlap between those.
  • Drunk and Driven
    My pursuit of drunken perfection (satire).
  • The Full Agrarian Letter
    How to be a good agrarian: Professor Michael Jordan's full final exam letter to his students
  • Did We Just See a Red Swan?
    Reddit, GameStop, Stimulus, and Two Things to Do If You Want to Survive and Thrive in the Age of the Black Swan
  • blur book stack books bookshelves
    Twenty 20th-Century Books to Make You a Smarter Catholic
    Each book will give you knowledge and help you develop a Catholic worldview.

Briefs

  • Hate the River-Rat!
    Illiterate, suspicious, intensely clannish- blond, and usually ugly, river-rats make ideal bootleggers.
  • Southern Literary Figure Hated Confederate Statues
    Will Percy was not a BLM advocate, much less an Antifa subversive. He was “the embodiment of Southern culture, ‘defender of traditions, poet, gracious host.’”
  • Carting Away Hobbits
    Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind
  • The Real Transylvania
    William Penn was so impressed by the religious freedom in Transylvania that he almost named his American colony “Transylvania.”
  • What the Frick, Amazon?
    Amazon has released an excellent documentary about what James Burnham called "The Suicide of the West."
  • Oh Mighty TDE Seer
    My 2009 notes about James Martin's first book.

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