We're Going to Kill Ourselves to Death!
The world isn't going to overpopulate itself to extinction. In fact, just the opposite is going to occur, according to a recent book.
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Andrew Senior on John Senior, Proponent of Beauty & Tradition
Julian Kwasniewski at The Imaginative Conservative
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Be the interesting guy at the bachelor party this weekend
Your Opinions Stink
John of Montmirail liked to fight. He was a leading knight in battle; he jousted in peace.
But then he had a religious conversion and dedicated his resources to helping the poor, including the establishment of a hospice in his castle.
He once went to help a woman whose dying
Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I went on a crash GKC diet in my twenties. In addition to a score of Chesterton books, I read three biographies about the great man, plus his Autobiography.
But I realized earlier this month that I had never read the first biography, which was written by his friend, Maisie
How to Listen to Your Heart
The Rise of Satire
Have you heard of the Scriblerus Club? It was an authors’ club founded in London in 1714. It was known for its satiric bent. Jonathan Swift was a member.
Western culture had long enjoyed satire, but there was a great satiric revival right after Descartes. Satire became huge.
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The Stumbling Block: On Dorothy Day's Cause
Matthew Walther at The Lamp
The Shire: Land of the Tao . . . and of Solid Right Hemispheres
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 57
BYCU: National Dive Bar Day
I celebrate those phony holidays as much as Hitler celebrated Yom Kippur, but I'm getting behind this one:
National Dive Bar DayHere’s a deep ‘dive’ into dive bars and how best to celebrate these establishments.Ali SultanNational Today
Many people credit author/poet Charles Bukowski’s semi-autobiography,