How to Kill the Tao
The left hemisphere gets things done. The Tao isn’t concerned about getting things done. Let your left hemisphere dominate: you’ll never be bothered by the Tao again.
Eric Scheske
The Difference Between Rebelling Against the Establishment and Rebelling Against the establishment (small "e")
My Dad was fiercely conservative. A full-blown WASP, albeit of the first-generation sort, his parents having migrated from Russia shortly before 1917. We used to drink beer at a local dive bar and discuss sundry (and sudsy) topics. During one conversation, I told him I was reading On the Road
Leisure, the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper
A Micro-Review/Essay
Enemies of the Permanent Things, by Russell Kirk
A Micro-Review Essay
The Spokane Word
From Taki Mag
Edward Frenkel on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
"Nietzsche wrote this book called The Birth of Tragedy and he presented this theory . . . of two sides of a human. One that comes from Apollo, and that's the left brain so to speak: everything that has to do with logic, and reason, and analyzing, dissecting, conceptualizing. And
Life and Times of Booth Tarkington
From The Worthy House
Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Anticipated Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
A few notes (a half-baked short essay) about the Hungarian chemist/philosopher and the English psychiatrist/philosopher
“Live in the Now” is Bad Practical Advice
But it’s good existential advice
Do you want a piece of advice that I’ve seen recommended by sages in virtually every spiritual tradition?
Live in the present moment.
I don’t care if it’s a Muslim Sufi or a Christian mystic or an Indian yogi or a
Who is Sohrab Ahmari?
From Ouillette