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Giving a Whole New Meaning to the "Rear Naked Choke"
And the "Reverse Mount," the "Rear Mount," the "Full Mount," the "Arm Drag," and the "Whizzer"
I was cracking up, just reading through a UFC glossary. Can you
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"He is Interested Only in the Individual Soul Whom He Places Before God"
Advocates from across the political field have claimed Christ for their side: Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Conservatives, Monarchists. They all can find something in Christ's life or his words to support their political vision. It isn't surprising, of course, since every doctrine, no matter how absurd, has
The Smallest of Seeds: A Review of Fragile Neighborhoods
Christian McNamara at Front Porch Republic
Scrolling Blog: November 2023
November 30, 2023
Four Female Philosophers
His four magi, emerging from the material, moral, social, and political wreckage wrought by the First World War, grasped that philosophy had to be utterly reimagined.
Exactly. All the decent philosophers in the twentieth century knew modern thought was broken and had to be
Inside the Transgender Empire
Christopher Rufo at Imprimis
Podcast: October 3, 2023
Patience and Forbearance Requested: Everything Here is Experimental
How to Think about the Cell Phone
Weapon of Self-Destruction or Tool of Self-Improvement:
The cell phone. Is it a great thing? A useful thing? An annoying thing? An addicting thing?
A ton of writers have condemned the cell phone on all sorts of grounds. They’re tired of rude talkers who use it in restaurants, parks,
Gothic Realism: Right Hemispheric?
The macabre might, in part, be a rejection of the Enlightenment and yet another route to re-energize the right hemisphere and its embrace of the trans-rational, much as the occult is a rejection of rationalism and its left hemispheric overlord.
The Gothic genre is particularly suited to depicting these elements.
Repair Culture on the Rise?
The new issue of Plough magazine pushes for a return to repairing things. The thrust of this new movement: "throwaway culture" is creating all sorts of problems, from landfills to euthanasia. And big business is the reason. Starting in 1923, it stopped making products intended to last for
Famous Amos
Kyle Smith at The New Criterion