Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Anticipated Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
A few notes (a half-baked short essay) about the Hungarian chemist/philosopher and the English psychiatrist/philosopher
Biography
Who is Sohrab Ahmari?
From Ouillette
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
From The Worthy House
Was Descartes Nuts?
The Cartesian view of the world adopts a stance normally found only in patients suffering from schizophrenia.
Referring to a famous passage from the Meditations on First Philosophy in which Descartes describes looking out of his window and seeing what he knows to be people passing by as seeming to
The Continuing Importance of Thomas Sowell
From Imprimis
Russell Kirk: The Anti-Modernist Cerberus
The author of The Conservative Mind opposed modernity in at least three ways
Russell Kirk hated modernity.
He rebelled against it his entire life. He hated the automobile, calling it a “modern Jacobin.” He wouldn't allow a TV in his house (though he let a hobo named “Clinton”
How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?
Thomas Merton started as a writer, became a Trappist monk with genuine insight into the spiritual life, and then wrapped himself in worldly activism. What happened?
Montaigne: The Godfather of 4Chan?
💡Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us modernity, its fierce subjectivism, and the parade of “little gods” that have marred the last 200+ years.
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The Secret Life of Philip Rieff
By Blake Smith, at The Tablet
Southern Life, Agrarian Vision: The Apprenticeship of Andrew Lytle
By Mark Malvasi at The Imaginative Conservative