Labor v. Leisure

There's a thing called the "disutility of labor." It's a fancy phrase that basically means people prefer leisure over labor. We constantly see people make current sacrifices in order to get advantages later, and one of the principle advantages is leisure. Von Mises points

Post-Journalism: Objectivity is No Longer the Goal

Jonathan Turley

How to Hate Jordan Peterson

My man Ayodeji Awosika came out with a great piece at Medium.com awhile back: 12 Rules for Hating Jordan Peterson. This Jordan piece is a monster, consisting of nearly 4,000 words (Medium.com measures its stories by reading time: 265 WPM; this article is 14 minutes long . . . do

How the Media Polarized Us

By Audrey Mir at City Journal

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

Paul Mankowski at First Things

Seven Most Underappreciated Movie Villains

“A hero is only as good as his villain” is a stupid saying. Is MCU Iron Man only as good as War Monger? Do you even remember who War Monger is? On the flip side, there are hundreds of cases where the villain far outshines the hero: for example, every

AI and the Left Hemisphere

About once a month, I come across an online essay that is so lengthy and compelling that, after reading the first section, I merely scan the rest and print it out so I can study it later. Such is this essay by Adam Kirsch. It appears to be an explanation

QR Codes Aren't Evil

They just feel that way. We ought to be asking "why?"

Flannery O’Connor’s Prescription for Our Divided Times

By Christina Bieber Lake at Comment

St. Dann the Armed Robber

You ever notice how many saints die of drug overdoses? It's amazing. A newspaper article will recount a man or woman's last days in a way that makes the person sound sweeter than St. Francis, and then, buried in the middle of the article, there'