Killing Trappist Beer
Friday's "Drinking Matters" regular column. This week: Belgian Trappist beer.
Oh Mighty TDE Seer
My 2009 notes about James Martin's first book.
One Vicious Author
Novelist Patricia Highsmith was an awful person.
Getting Naked with Old People and Consulting Young People
The 55-year-old Paulina Porizkova gets naked. The immature are deemed wise. It's a topsy-turvy world.
Solzhenitsyn Saw Cancel Culture
Robert Wagner at The New Criterion, writing about Solzhenitsyn's The Red Wheel.
McLuhan Sighting
"Philosophize This" dedicates its current episode to Marshall McLuhan
How to be a Good Agrarian
Agrarian advice from Michael Jordan.
Nine Times Over the Legal Limit
Drinking matters
The Silver Rule Comes to Wall Street
Is the big game this week silver?
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
Three Things We Know About the Amazon LOTR Series
Late 2020 release date, no Legolas, no Peter Jackson, and definitely set in the Second Age.
The Tolkien Companion
St. Martin Press released a Tolkien dictionary . . . a year before The Silmarillion came out. Ouch.