The Gnostic: A Person Controlled by His Left Hemisphere, Plus a Cause
Merely being controlled by the left hemisphere doesn't make a person a gnostic. He also needs a cause.
Eric Scheske
Why the Fading of the Southern Accent Is Bad News
Jack Butler at National Review
I Almost Became an Anarchist
A mini-review of The Essential Rothbard by David Gordon.
Murray Rothbard almost made me an anarchist.
I had read some of Rothbard's stuff and had delved into various areas of anarchist thought (mostly through this somewhat difficult, very thick, often fascinating volume). I've abandoned such
Three Ways to War Poetically
Language is where our brains hit the world. We need to cultivate it in a right-hemispheric way.
BYCU
The Topsy-Turvy World of Bankruptcy Law is Never a Dry Area
Leave it to the American genius to devise the elaborate maze that is the Bankruptcy Code.
No other area of law has such an elaborate left-hemispheric schema, complete with its own internal rationalizations that only the mad
The Nothing Desire
“The poor monk is lord of world.” St. John Climacus
Bruno was a rising star of eleventh-century European culture. A master of the cathedral school (the precursor to the university) of Rheims, he taught grammar, poetry, philosophy and theology. He became head of Rheims by age thirty. The most
In Defense of Voracious Reading
Philip Bunn at Law & Liberty
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
Leisure and Liberality
Elizabeth C. Corey at First Things
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.
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