The Deeply Flawed Campaign for Racial Reparations
By Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe
Eric Scheske
Postmodernist Pinball Wizards
"He Stands Like a Statue/Becomes Part of the Machine"
That lyric from The Who's righteous (if overplayed) song summarizes the point of this very good piece at Salon. It's not often you see TDE post an essay from that leftist e-rag, but it&
Are Alien Sightings Just Demonic Possessions?
In 1959, the famous psychologist Carl Jung wrote Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky. Instead of trying to account for UFOs as a literal reality, he opted to see them instead as a psychic aspect, a fantasy of the unconscious.
The Demolition of the Western Mind
Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative
Be Open to Spiritual Experience. Also, Be Really Careful
Ross Douthat at The New York Times
Scrolling Blog: February 2023
February 28, 2023
Feast Day of St. Oswald
Actually, that's not true, but the poor guy, who Butler tells us was "endowed with a very rare and beautiful form of body," is feasted on February 29th, so TDE is doing its part here to remedy the
Labor v. Leisure
There's a thing called the "disutility of labor." It's a fancy phrase that basically means people prefer leisure over labor.
We constantly see people make current sacrifices in order to get advantages later, and one of the principle advantages is leisure. Von Mises points
Post-Journalism: Objectivity is No Longer the Goal
Jonathan Turley
How to Hate Jordan Peterson
My man Ayodeji Awosika came out with a great piece at Medium.com awhile back: 12 Rules for Hating Jordan Peterson.
This Jordan piece is a monster, consisting of nearly 4,000 words (Medium.com measures its stories by reading time: 265 WPM; this article is 14 minutes long . . . do
How the Media Polarized Us
By Audrey Mir at City Journal