Gin and Morals, Please
By Thomas Triedman at The New Criterion
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There’s No Such Thing as Free Breastmilk
Abigail Blanco at the American Institute for Economic Research
Complications of the Ukraine War
Christopher Caldwell at Imprimis
Jon Fosse
Mr. Fosse received the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 5th. This development is relevant to TDE for three reasons: (1) It's literature, which is a form of counter-conduct and a means of flourishing; (2) He converted to Catholicism in 2012; and (3) In the words of the
Roger Scruton Knew What Wine was For
By Roger Kimball at The Spectator
The Passing of a Dive Bar
From the Lamp
A Tribute to Loretta Lynn
By Matthew Walther at The Lamp
Podcasting Hasn’t Produced A New Hit in Years
By Lucas Shaw at Bloomberg
Why the South is Important
The South is important because it's the most distinctive region of the United States. The "region" is the conceptual buffer between the "central" and the "local." We don't want to lose the region any more than a nation would want
Anti-Localism is Left-Hemispheric: Passages from McGilchrist that Bear This Out
Like many "Briefly" posts, this is a work-in-process
The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society. The impersonal would come to replace the personal. There would be