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Eric Scheske

Leftists Trying Not to be Gnostics

Current Affairs seems like a worthwhile magazine. It describes itself as "the left magazine for people skeptical of leftism." Based on this essay, it seems pretty far left . . . Bernie Sanders-left . . . but intellectually honest left. In the perspective of the Hemisphere Hypothesis, an "intellectually honest" leftist is

Theorists vs. Practitioners

Jeffrey Tucker at The Brownstone Institute

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists

Michael Munger at American Institute for Economic Research

BYCU: Variety is the Spice of Life . . . and Good Health

Brews You Can Use

The Importance of Being is the Flipside of the Importance of Doing Nothing

"It's because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion." G.K. Chesterton Here's a great

The Right Hemisphere Way of Therese Lisieux

St. Therese's is the "little way." The left hemisphere values the big. The left hemisphere demands answers and solutions, which require increasingly large effort. The Little Way is a rebuke of such a disposition. She placed no value on abstractions, opting instead for the real and

Matt Taibbi is Testifying This Morning at Congress

Matt Taibbi at Racket News

Have the Ancient Gods Returned?

Naomi Wolf at Brownstone Institute

Henry Fowler and Ernest Gowers

Henry Fowler (1858-1933) wrote A Dictionary of Modern English Usage after a career of pretty much nothing. He worked hard; he was honest and honorable, but he had never amounted to much: teacher, journalist, soldier (lying about his 57 years so he could fight), and editor. But then, in 1925,

The Mere Concept of "Mental Health" Makes Us Unhealthy

Of course, this concern is rooted in language itself. By positing one thing, we amplify its opposite. It's why postmodernists hate binaries. It drove ancient Taoism's admonitions not to look at concepts like "good" and "hate." It drove the background of Dostoyevsky&