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We're Increasingly Lonely Because the Gnostics are Increasingly Powerful
This is a great piece at Plough, drawing de Tocqueville to diagnose the problem with democracy. The bottom line: In a static culture, a man knows his place and settles into quiet contentment. In a democratic culture, no one knows his place and is neither quiet nor content . . . and he&
Why Are We Lonely?
Joey Hiles at Plough
In the Shallows: Why Do Public Intellectuals Condescend to Their Readers
Becca Rothfeld at The Yale Review
Middlebrow Writing
There used to be writing that was "middlebrow." You'd find it in urbane and smart publications that were lower than academia and fine writing (highbrow) and higher than sports columnists and dimestore novels (lowbrow).
It was always a limited market. When Henry Fowler self-published his own
The Hemisphere Hypothesis Changes Everything
And since "everything" is dictated by modernity's rationalist and gnostic presumptions and conclusions, it's a good thing
Counter-Conduct and Flourishing are the Same Things Except They're Not
Modernity is left-hemispheric. It has led to a culture of left hemisphere presumptions, conditions, and conclusions. As a result, it has led to a population of people with atrophied right hemispheres.
Each of us has an obligation to reinvigorate our right hemispheres. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it
Drinking with Children
The first Christmas card
Tis the season . . . to get kids drunk.
The very first Christmas card showed a young child drinking mulled wine. It was 1843, the year Dickens' Christmas Carol came out.
One of the works of art proved very popular, selling out its first edition in six
Why We're Watching Zombie Movies
After I saw World War Z years ago, I wrote:
What's with all the zombie flicks?
I read E. Michael Jones' Monsters from the Id when it first came out over twenty years ago, and I've always thought its central message didn't get
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Reason 2: The Screw Top Wine Bottle is Ascendent
I put wine corks in the same category as neckties: Fancy vestiges whose hassles outweigh their traditional charm.
Is This the Best Time Ever to Be Drinking Wine? 4 Compelling ReasonsFrom fewer corked bottles to more-adventurous approaches to obscure grapes, recent