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Eric Scheske

How to Think about the Cell Phone

Weapon of Self-Destruction or Tool of Self-Improvement: The cell phone. Is it a great thing? A useful thing? An annoying thing? An addicting thing? A ton of writers have condemned the cell phone on all sorts of grounds. They’re tired of rude talkers who use it in restaurants, parks,

Gothic Realism: Right Hemispheric?

The macabre might, in part, be a rejection of the Enlightenment and yet another route to re-energize the right hemisphere and its embrace of the trans-rational, much as the occult is a rejection of rationalism and its left hemispheric overlord. The Gothic genre is particularly suited to depicting these elements.

Repair Culture on the Rise?

The new issue of Plough magazine pushes for a return to repairing things. The thrust of this new movement: "throwaway culture" is creating all sorts of problems, from landfills to euthanasia. And big business is the reason. Starting in 1923, it stopped making products intended to last for

Famous Amos

Kyle Smith at The New Criterion

Nassim Taleb Tore into the Left Hemisphere Before The Master and His Emissary

The Canonization of Lou Reed

Jeremy Lybarger at The New Republic

Beyond Progressivism

John Milbank at The Hedgehog Review: Toward a Personalist Metaphysics of History

BYCU

People are Drinking More of Those Frilly Canned Drinks And they're reducing household budgets and trying to live healthier Not mentioned: More people are smoking marijuana. It's easier to take the pledge when you're taking a bong hit. People Are Drinking Less Craft Beer.

Saving St. Louis One Block at a Time

Rachel Ferguson at the Acton Institute

Jon Fosse's Fiction

Jonathan Geltner at Close Reading