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Introductions to and Summaries of The Hemisphere Hypothesis

By the Master Himself Resist the Machine Apocalypse | Iain McGilchristNo two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but . . . .First ThingsIain McGilchrist The Best The thing about things | The New CriterionJonathan Gaisman on The Thing With Things by Iain McGilchrist.Vol. 42, No.

The Gnostics in Hollywood are Perverts

Existence Strikes Back Part IV explores flourishing in our postmodern, left-hemispheric, culturally-gnostic world. One of the ways to promote flourishing: avoid things that are culturally gnostic and left-hemispheric, like Hollywood.

I Loathe Bracketology: A Screed

For the Love of Dick Vitale’s Soul, Retire the Word “Bracketology”

How You Attend to the World Changes What You Find There

And if you attend sloppily, what you'll find is slop Do you want to understand what you're thinking about? Then think as clearly about it as possible. Do you want to think clearly about something? Then think in clear terms. On the flip side, if you

The Most Delicious Way to Get Your Dose of Elderberry

Nina Molina (great name) at the Wall Street Journal

Localism and the Importance of Laboratories

If localities have self-determination, it results in a country full of mini-laboratories where we can figure out what works and what doesn't. Granted, in the localities that practice oppression and hatred, things will be miserable, but at least people can leave. If enough people leave, the people who

Fine Prose or Trashy Prose: Is There No Third Way?

I want to encourage young writers, even if it is a poor man’s game. [I]f you want to write well and live well at the same time, you’d better arrange to inherit money or marry a stockbroker or a rich woman who can operate a typewriter. Flannery

Aristotle to Aquinas to Pieper: Leisure Solves Nothing. That's What Makes it Counter-Conduct

In the tradition that runs from Aristotle through Aquinas to Josef Pieper, leisure is not a solution to anything, but an alternative way of being in the world. In Pieper’s formulation, leisure “runs at right angles” to the practical pursuits of work and achievement. Leisure and Liberality | Elizabeth C.

Hate the River-Rat!

I gotta say, I'm really enjoying Will Percy's 1941 autobiography, Lanterns of the Levee. I'd heard of it for years but never bothered to buy it, much less read it. The prose is beautiful, if a bit ornate by today's standard, and

‘Incoherent narrative’: 1619 Project’s New Hulu Series Gets Capitalism All Wrong

Maggie Kelly at The College Fix