An Encyclopedia of Curiosities and Horrors
Filip Bakardzhiev at VoegelinView
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Has the Rabble Breached Another Wall in the Castle of High Culture?
The New Criterion properly considers itself an urbane journal of the arts. With this, comes a commitment to first-rate style, without regard to the Idiocracy that is overwhelming our culture.
But I saw something interesting (or disturbing, depending on whether one cheers this cultural secular bear market or condemns it)
Picture Books for Adults
This is a delightful piece from Public Books. I especially liked this observation about how medieval monks would read:
This form of reading, de Hamel says, is one reason why so many medieval manuscripts have richly decorated pages. The decorations “helped impress a page visually in the reader’s memory,
Why the CIA No Longer Works—and How to Fix It
Charles S. Faddis at Hillsdale College
BYCU
Another Modern Drunkard Magazine tribute
That Inscription at the Temple of Apollo Won't Go Away
Pretty much everyone agrees we need self-knowledge. The problem is, our left hemispheres hinder it and we are a culture of left-hemispheric presumptions.
Markets and the Good: Thinking Beyond the Tyranny of Economics
Jay Tolson at The Hedgehog Review
What Do Fungi Have to Do with Athens?
Eve Tushnet at The University Bookman
These Monks Were on a Search-and-Destroy Mission Against Their Left Hemispheres
It's hard to admit this, but here goes:
Back in my twenties, I decided I wanted to be a mystic.
Such a thing is absurd: The goal is foiled by the goal. You might as well decide you want to be a poor man with money (one of