I Spent Wednesday Evening with a Bottle of Gin and a Pile of Old Magazines, Wasting Time on a Stupid Task

It was a delightful waste of time.

Solon, the Father of Democracy, was a Man of the Tao

💡Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao. Ancient Athens in the 600s BC Ancient Athens didn’t have a king. It was ruled by nine archons. These were men from the largest landowning families in Attica. When an archon finished his term, he became

How to Kill the Tao

The left hemisphere gets things done. The Tao isn’t concerned about getting things done. Let your left hemisphere dominate: you’ll never be bothered by the Tao again.

The Difference Between Rebelling Against the Establishment and Rebelling Against the establishment (small "e")

My Dad was fiercely conservative. A full-blown WASP, albeit of the first-generation sort, his parents having migrated from Russia shortly before 1917. We used to drink beer at a local dive bar and discuss sundry (and sudsy) topics. During one conversation, I told him I was reading On the Road

Leisure, the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper

A Micro-Review/Essay

Enemies of the Permanent Things, by Russell Kirk

A Micro-Review Essay

The Spokane Word

From Taki Mag

Edward Frenkel on Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

"Nietzsche wrote this book called The Birth of Tragedy and he presented this theory . . . of two sides of a human. One that comes from Apollo, and that's the left brain so to speak: everything that has to do with logic, and reason, and analyzing, dissecting, conceptualizing. And

Life and Times of Booth Tarkington

From The Worthy House

Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Anticipated Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis

A few notes (a half-baked short essay) about the Hungarian chemist/philosopher and the English psychiatrist/philosopher