Dive Bar Patrons Understand More than College Professors
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Eric Scheske
Distributism Needs a New Name
Dale Ahlquist at Plough
Ten Facts about Black Wednesday
“Drinksgiving” is simply lame. “Drink” doesn’t rhyme with “Thanks,” any more than “Moron” rhymes with “Dolt,” both of which describe anyone who uses that stupid term.
Kauffman on Nisbet
Bill Kauffman at The American Conservative
Science and Magic
The historian of intellectual history, Frances Yates, wrote extensively about the realm of magical pursuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in particular about hermeticism and its legendary eponymous source, Hermes Trismegistus. Yates points out that Renaissance magic--through characters such as Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Campanella, and Cornelius Agrippa--reached its apex
Examples of GKC's Right-Hemispheric Brain Overly Stifling His Left Hemisphere
A Work-in-Process
Civilization is Slow Hard Work: A Review of Lee Oser’s “Old Enemies”
Darrell Falconburg at VoegelinView
We Judge Based on Our Own State
For each man judges others by his own state, that is, by what he is himself--in virtues or sins. Simeon the New Theologian, Practical and Theological Precepts (Writings from the Philokalia, p. 109)
Politicians' Self-Interest and Dishonesty
By Pierre Lemieux at Econlib
Planning and The Politics of Beauty: Reflections on Stewart Udall
By Russell Arben Fox at Front Porch Republic