The Gnostic: A Person Controlled by His Left Hemisphere, Plus a Cause Merely being controlled by the left hemisphere doesn't make a person a gnostic. He also needs a cause.
I Almost Became an Anarchist A mini-review of The Essential Rothbard by David Gordon. Murray Rothbard almost made me an anarchist. I had read some of Rothbard's stuff and had delved into various areas of anarchist thought (mostly through this somewhat difficult, very thick, often fascinating volume). I've abandoned such notions,
Three Ways to War Poetically Language is where our brains hit the world. We need to cultivate it in a right-hemispheric way.
BYCU The Topsy-Turvy World of Bankruptcy Law is Never a Dry Area Leave it to the American genius to devise the elaborate maze that is the Bankruptcy Code. No other area of law has such an elaborate left-hemispheric schema, complete with its own internal rationalizations that only the mad men within
The Nothing Desire “The poor monk is lord of world.” St. John Climacus Bruno was a rising star of eleventh-century European culture. A master of the cathedral school (the precursor to the university) of Rheims, he taught grammar, poetry, philosophy and theology. He became head of Rheims by age thirty. The most promising
Satire Can Save Us This was previously published as an "Outside the Modern Limits" newsletter. I normally don't send them again as a Substack newsletter, but I did this time because I edited almost every sentence and added a bunch of footnotes. It's the same product, but entirely