Drug-Fueled Travelogue of the Post-Soviet Iron Curtain Region
Sam Kriss at The Lamp
Eric Scheske
Sam Kriss: Drug Aficionado and Master Essayist
I don't know whether I'm impressed or appalled, and I can't tell if the writer is confessing or bragging.
But boy, Sam Kriss, a "British writer and dilettante," has written the most enjoyable essay of the year. The agnostic Kriss ("[m]
Did Video Bring Us BLM, Riots, and COVID Hysteria?
A new essay about the Marshall McLuhan disciple, Neil Postman
You like dead white guys? How about a dead white guy who was the disciple of a dead white guy?
I do. I also like DWG Marshall McLuhan and his disciple, DWG Neil Postman, whose Amusing Ourselves to Death is
In Related News, Alcoholics Tend to Have Other Behavioral Disorders
Sarah Parshall Perry at The Heritage Foundation's "Daily Signal"
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by Diana Pasulka
How to Rebel Against the New Barbarism
We might be entering a new Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were a contest between the Catholic Church and barbarism. The Church won. That's not what's happening in the new Middle Ages. Here's how to deal with the new barbarism.
Russian mystic and philosopher
Fyodor, Flannery, and GoodFellas Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World
Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.
When Virtue Becomes Vice
We can't pursue virtue without vice.
Every pursuit of virtue, after all, requires us to strive to advance our happiness. Every such pursuit, in other words, is selfish, which is the root of all vice.
It's a paradox.
Paradox, The Hemispheres, and the TaoA basic tension
No More Boozy Bachelorette Parties?
By Ivy Manners at the New York Times
Another Defection from the Left
Here's the thing that strikes me about Uri Berliner's essay on Tuesday about National Public Radio's leftist agenda: The guy is still working there.
He now has whistleblower status, which offers social and legal protections, but it makes him persona non gratia at the