Joe Rogan's Rant Against Christianity

If you want to see something startling, watch this clip from the Joe Rogan Experience. Now, I think Rogan is one of the most entertaining interviewers ever and I find him to be respectful and open to ideas, but at times, his views come out . . . and they come out strong

America's Shadow Self

Michael Shellenberger at City Journal

Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson: Holy Saturday

A meditation

William Cobbett: Radical

Plough publishes pretty pieces. This piece about the 19th-century radical William Cobbett is the latest. It discusses the centralization of agriculture that took place in England in the early 1800s and Cobbett's resistance (which made him one of GKC's heroes; he wrote a biography about him)

Who’s Afraid of G. K. Chesterton?

By Michael Warren Davis at The Common Man (Substack)

How Much Garden Would You Need to Live?

From Life Hacker

About the Unsound and Little Fury

The Unsound and Little Fury. It's a parody of stream-of-consciousness literature, which is probably most popularly known through Joyce's Ulysses or Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. This feature is probably best identified with the line from Macbeth, which is where Faulkner's

The Rise and Fall of Peer Review

Adam Mastroianni at Experimental History (Substack)

Economic Freedom is the First Freedom

Because it deals with the things we require first

The Decentralist File

I grow more tired of online reading every day. It is by nature hard (something about the pixels and how our eyes work), but then the publications need to generate revenue, so they gum up access with pop-up screens and username requests, then gum up the prose with more pop-up