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Move Over New York: Mexico City is the City That Doesn't Sleep

I'm returning from eight days in Mexico City. I saw the future of Mexico, and I have no idea if it works. Mexico is Ready to Get Rich, if the Cartels Don't Destroy It First Peter Zeihan recently said Mexico is exploding, economically. The future looks

We Must Become Barbarians

Paul Kingsnorth at Unherd

How to Become a Great Man or Woman

For starters, read about the great men and women Merely by thinking about certain sorts of people at all . . . we become objectively, measurably, more like them, in how we behave, think and feel. Iain McGilchrist Ask a college professor this question: “Did Moses write the Torah or did the Torah

Propaganda

It's easy to spot propaganda you disagree with. It's not so easy to spot propaganda you agree with. And if you think you're subject to propaganda, you're deluding yourself. Unregistered 149: Mark Crispin Miller — Thaddeus RussellI spoke with Mark Crispin Miller, a

Live Like Hobbits

That's apparently the advice in a new book, "The Reactionary Mind," by Michael Warren Davis. It seems to me that Foucault's "counter-conduct" is becoming the number one obsession today, at least among people who think about . . . or at least feel . . . the left-hemisphere&

Self-Described “Activist” Wonders Why He’s Depressed

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

To my knowledge, I've never read anything by Toni Morrison. I've never even wanted to read anything by her. Not out of animosity. She simply rarely crossed my mental radar screen, except when there was a reference to Oprah, and that was enough to shoot it

BYCU

I Thought Opera Singers are Required to be, ahem, Robust Katherine Jenkins stuns in a black cocktail dress at her gin launchThe opera singer, 42, put on a glamorous display for the launch of her own premium gin named Cygnet in London on Thursday night.MSNConnie Rusk For Mailonline We

Seeking Transcendentals

Why Did I Order a Two-Volume History of Economic Thought? Fun, improvement, and volunteerism. That's how we might use current catchwords to answer the primordial question, “How ought we to live our lives?” That question hit me hard a few summers ago when I opened up a mail

Odysseus’s Dumbest Moments

“Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways…” So opens The Odyssey (Richard Lattimore Translation). “The man of many ways” is Odysseus. In all Greek myth, only Athena and (perhaps) Theseus are more known for wisdom. His wisdom resume is impressive: he made peace among all the Greek rulers