BYCU
Mint Julep, Ripple, Mint Jipple
Eric Scheske
The Education Jungle Just Gets Thicker and Thicker
K-12 education is awful. It doesn't need to be.
Living Off the Grid
If modernity is the left hemisphere's creation, then pursuits that appeal to the right hemisphere, or require us to give primacy to the right hemisphere, are acts of rebellion against modernity.
Example 1: Prose is the left hemisphere's flex: the earliest written records are from bureaucrats.
David Hume's Warning on Forever Wars
Daniel Klein at Law & Liberty
Good Conversation and the Talking Cure: A Review
Amanda Patchin at Front Porch Republic
A.I. and the Search for the Human
Norman Fiering at Law & Liberty
Strolling Through Spines for Solace and Sobriety
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.’” The man with owl-eyed spectacles, The Great Gatsby.
I sit, in a battered, leather chair. It affords me a view of all three ceiling-to-floor bookcases in my study.
The First Catholic Cleric to Go Over to Saruman (and the Left Hemisphere)?
In the early nineteenth century, the “tormented, headstrong Breton priest”[1] Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais changed fundamental Christian doctrines to justify socialism. His career illustrates the damage that can be done by presenting socialism as authentic religious doctrine, especially when an individual or group has established the illusion of orthodoxy
35,000-Word Tribute to The Matter with Things
I typically read the essays I post or link to, but I haven't read this one: "Beyond the Scientific Revolution: Ian McGilchrist's The Matter with Things."
But I might be forgiven.
It clocks in at 35,000 words.
And based on the first 2,
Scrolling Blog: May 2023
May 31, 2023
The Boromir Option
It appears Patrick Deneen has rejected the Benedict Option in favor of the Boromir Option, with special disdain for Albert Jay Nock's observation that a man performs his societal role by improving himself, without taking the reigns of power, just as Socrates