How Can You Cure Yourself of Modernitis?

You're soaked in modernity. You think like a modern. It's not good. Consider doing the opposite of whatever your rationality tells you to do.

Where Are the Earlier Entries?

Are you looking for earlier scrolling blog pieces? I’m afraid you’ll have to search for each one individually. Why no scrolling blog, even though the tagline says “since 2004”? Simply because all blogs were scrolling (“stacked”) back in 2004. That was the only format, which made sense (blog

If You Want to Flourish, Develop Your Router

Insane people often have impaired right hemispheres. Unfortunately, we probably all have impaired right hemispheres.

Shift in Drinking Habits

It seems alcohol is reeling. Every week, I see stories about another industry that's hurting, but few stories point to the culprit: legal marijuana. In my generation, I see many adults who drink far less but smoke far more (or eat edibles). I've known at least

The Continuing Importance of Thomas Sowell

From Imprimis

Transmitting Philosophical Symbols

In order to appreciate what the sage is saying, a person must have already had a parallel experience of some sort. After I was done writing the Russian monk piece last week, I pulled Sergius Bolshakoff’s Russian Mystics off the shelf. It’d been years since I read it,

All Gnostics are Left-Hemispheric, but Not All Left-Hemispherics are Gnostics

The difference between political gnosticism and cultural gnosticism

We Need to Resist the World of Pure Action

Last week, Michael Osterholm went on the Joe Rogan Experience for the second time. Osterholm, some might recall, went on Rogan early in the pandemic. Later Rogan guests decried him as a “chicken little” who was just trying to hawk his book. Osterholm said things that turned out to be

Invasion of the Fact-Checkers

From the Tablet

An Anthology, by Josef Pieper

A Micro-Review/Essay “The possibility of incurring guilt is the ultimate existential threat for every person.” There are some authors who make you think, “I could just read this guy for the rest of my life. He’d bring me to greater and greater levels of wisdom and understanding.” Pieper