Savonarola, Dominican Monk (1452-1498)
Some cultures are so spiritually poisonous, they need to be burned.
Topic
Biography
A collection of 120 issues
Jeremy Clarke: A Great Reader
It's arguably the most popular column in Britain's oldest newspaper.
The "Low Life" column of The Spectator has entertained readers since 1975, when Jeffrey Bernard provided readers with, to quote Johnathan Meades, "a suicide note in weekly installments."
After Bernard's
Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres
Picture Thomas Sowell, that old warrior of the mind, sitting at his desk, sifting through the wreckage of human folly.
His right hemisphere? Hell if I know how it hums. Does he commune with the Tao, feel the pulse of the cosmos in his bones? Not my place to say,
Edgar Cayce: Sleeping Prophet
Edgar Cayce, the “Sleeping Prophet” (1877-1945), was a peculiar figure, a lanky Kentuckian who slipped into some kind of trance-like stupor and spouted answers to life’s mysteries like a backwoods oracle.
Over 14,000 of his mutterings were scribbled down by diligent stenographers, responses to questions from 6,000
Two Learned Men; Six Volumes
I only have the single volume "Section," but it's enjoyable
Way of the Right Brain: Chuang-Tzu’s Genius
Seven and a half centuries before Bodhidharma started Zen by melding Buddhism to Taoism, Chuang-Tzu danced through the world.
This sly jester is second only to the old sage Lao-Tzu in Tao greatness.
Chuang-Tzu championed wu-wei—the art of non-doing, of letting the world spin without your sweaty grip on
Montaigne: Smiling Skeptic
Montaigne spat on every dogma and system that strutted through the intellectual barnyard of his day. His motto: Que sais-je? (What do I know?) His answer, delivered with a smirk: Not a daggone thing.
“There is a plague on man: his opinion that he knows something.”
Montaigne
Logic? Pfft. He’
The Stud that Was H.L. Mencken
Every so often, I plunge headlong into a Mencken spree, a vice I’ve nursed since the early 1990s when I first stumbled into Ann Arbor’s Dawn Treader Bookstore and smelled those old books (that odd but pleasing scent, I’m told, comes from vanilla releasing from the aging
Why Weak Fools Can Dominate
Exploring the fool in Christ and the fool in Antichrist. Ivan the Terrible v. Nicholas of Pskov. Nietzsche v. Everyone
Introducing Blaise Pascal: The First Anti-Modern
If we’re going to battle against modernity, we need to recognize our champions. Pascal might have been the first.