Bring in the Clowns
Embrace the clown. He's the only effective response to our overweening rationalistic culture. (Essay)
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AI Claude Can't Play Pokeman
AI is full of paradoxical results because it only has a left hemisphere and existence requires a right hemisphere as well (Essay)
The Eudemon is Back
In a world of driveling prose, is TDE like the dude who sets a cat on fire because he thinks the world needs more suffering? (Blog Post)
An American Tradition: A Guy Can Never be Too Safe
“President Peña of Paraguay is here. President. President, thank you very much. Young, handsome guy. It’s always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn’t mean we have to like you. I don’t like young, handsome men. Women, I like. Men, I don’t have any interest. Good. That’s right." DJR (Mini-Essay)
This Lent: Resolving without Resolving
(Essay)
"Frank Rich and John Simon are the Syphilis and Gonorrhea of the Theater."
(Mini-Essay)
The Roaring Twenties
They roared with alcohol (Mini-Essay)
Get Outside and Walk
(Essay)
We've All Become at Least a Bit Monstrous Because Our Culture is Very Monstrous
(Essay)