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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'

Edward Frenkel on the Limits of Large Language Models

"I wonder if a large language model could actually ever come up with the idea that the square root of negative one is something that is essential or meaningful because if all information you get, if all the knowledge that had been accumulated up to that point, tells you

Aragorn and the Rangers or Dirty Mike and the Boys?

New York Gazette August 28, 2021 NEW YORK. Cultural critics have grown outraged by the portrayal of Aragorn in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Ring series. “It's pretty clear that Aragorn is homosexual but Tolkien simply refused to admit it,” says Guy Chase, President of the

Ellis Sandoz, RIP

The Voegelin community is a puzzling one. To an outsider (i.e., to me), it seems insular but enthusiastic. It's like they're on their own island and eagerly invite others to the island but with one requirement: the others already be on the island. And what

Hamlet in the Metaxy

By Stephen Conlin at The Imaginative Conservative

In Praise of Clichés

Avoid stale phrases. Orwell called them "dying metaphors." Robert Fiske called them "moribund metaphors." They're sayings that have been used hundreds of time but haven't yet made it into regular vernacular. "Emotional rollercoaster," "It's a jungle out

Don't Kill Hudge and Gudge by Thinking Like Hudge and Gudge Writ Small

The struggle to reconcile our use of Amazon with our hatred of big corporations is a constant mental, even emotional, struggle, especially when facts like this are plopped in front of us: Money is power, and companies like Amazon suck this economic power out of local communities and concentrate it

Localism without Fundamentalism

We can applaud yesterday's small towns without worshipping them. We can appreciate the local without demonizing the central. But we also need to insist that today's progressives applaud yesterday and that today's centralizing gnostics respect the local. I'm afraid those just aren&

Relationship Contracts: Another Postmodern Band-Aid

Do I applaud or vomit? That Hamlet-like question twists my mind when I read about our postmodern culture's mental struggles. Most recently, it happened when I read about "relationship contracts." They're documents signed by people who have decided they're going to

Christopher Lasch Appealed on the Left and the Right

By Christian Lorentzen at The Jacobin