The Demolition of the Western Mind
Louis Markos at The Imaginative Conservative
Eric Scheske
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
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Paul Mankowski at First Things
Seven Most Underappreciated Movie Villains
“A hero is only as good as his villain” is a stupid saying.
Is MCU Iron Man only as good as War Monger? Do you even remember who War Monger is? On the flip side, there are hundreds of cases where the villain far outshines the hero: for example, every
AI and the Left Hemisphere
About once a month, I come across an online essay that is so lengthy and compelling that, after reading the first section, I merely scan the rest and print it out so I can study it later.
Such is this essay by Adam Kirsch. It appears to be an explanation