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Satire Can Save Us

Satire Can Save Us

This was previously published as an "Outside the Modern Limits" newsletter. I normally don't send them again as a Substack newsletter, but I did this time because I edited almost every sentence and added a bunch of footnotes. It's the same product, but entirely

Battles on the Right

Battles on the Right

A new battlefront has opened on the political right: localists v. monoliths. It's the latest version of the libertarian-conservative debate that George Nash described marvelously in his major work. The localists in the current debate are the libertarians and the monoliths are the conservatives. I say "monoliths&

The Reality of Fr. Damien

The Reality of Fr. Damien

A few years ago, the future of the Catholic Church AOC said a statue of Fr. Damien of Molokai at the Capitol building is an example of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.” She quickly realized that she picked a bad example and backpedaled faster than Deion Sanders in his prime,

Scrolling Blog: October 2023

Scrolling Blog: October 2023

October 31, 2023 Is Corporate Woke Entering Its Death Throes? No thanks to those who still patronize Disney and the other leftist corporate elites out there, but hats off to those who used to patronize but stopped. Me? I never purposefully patronized Disney, except for one trip to Disneyland in

BYCU

BYCU

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Attack the Left Hemisphere with Satire

Attack the Left Hemisphere with Satire

We're Increasingly Lonely Because the Gnostics are Increasingly Powerful

We're Increasingly Lonely Because the Gnostics are Increasingly Powerful

This is a great piece at Plough, drawing de Tocqueville to diagnose the problem with democracy. The bottom line: In a static culture, a man knows his place and settles into quiet contentment. In a democratic culture, no one knows his place and is neither quiet nor content . . . and he&

Middlebrow Writing

Middlebrow Writing

There used to be writing that was "middlebrow." You'd find it in urbane and smart publications that were lower than academia and fine writing (highbrow) and higher than sports columnists and dimestore novels (lowbrow). It was always a limited market. When Henry Fowler self-published his own

The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything

The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything

And since "everything" is dictated by modernity's rationalist and gnostic presumptions and conclusions, it's a good thing

Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not

Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not

Modernity is left-hemispheric. It has led to a culture of left hemisphere presumptions, conditions, and conclusions. As a result, it has led to a population of people with atrophied right hemispheres. Each of us has an obligation to reinvigorate our right hemispheres. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it