The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything
And since "everything" is dictated by modernity's rationalist and gnostic presumptions and conclusions, it's a good thing
Eric Scheske
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
Drinking with Children
The first Christmas card
Tis the season . . . to get kids drunk.
The very first Christmas card showed a young child drinking mulled wine. It was 1843, the year Dickens' Christmas Carol came out.
One of the works of art proved very popular, selling out its first edition in six
Why We're Watching Zombie Movies
After I saw World War Z years ago, I wrote:
What's with all the zombie flicks?
I read E. Michael Jones' Monsters from the Id when it first came out over twenty years ago, and I've always thought its central message didn't get
BYCU
Reason 2: The Screw Top Wine Bottle is Ascendent
I put wine corks in the same category as neckties: Fancy vestiges whose hassles outweigh their traditional charm.
Is This the Best Time Ever to Be Drinking Wine? 4 Compelling ReasonsFrom fewer corked bottles to more-adventurous approaches to obscure grapes, recent
On words and the Word
Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule
Shelby Foote: The South’s Jewish Proust
Blake Smith at The Tablet
Voodoo and Zombies and the Absurdization of All Religions
Well, far out. Voodoo is back.
Actually, it never left.
Voodoo was originally a pagan African religion that got mixed with Catholicism in Haiti during Spanish and French colonial rule.
Since then, it has always been a religious force on the island and in 2003, it became an officially-recognized Haitian
The Fateful Nineties
Christopher Caldwell at First Things
18 Things You Can Learn from A Monk of the Eastern Church
Mystical. Passionate. Spiritual. Cranky. Monastic. Urban. Greek Orthodox. Catholic. French. English.
Anonymous. . .
. . . Lev (Leo) Gillet.
All of those words describe an unusual man who would become known to readers as “A Monk of the Eastern Church.”
He was born in France in 1893. Shortly before World War I, he became