What’s that Twitter Imp Up to?
From the Archives (January 2021)
Biography
McConaughey on His Way to Rome?
Recommended: Joe Rogan's engaging interview with Matthew McConaughey
Delightful interview from Austin, Texas, with Matthew McConaughey at the Joe Rogan Show. I listened to it yesterday while using my new nifty leaf mulcher to create some great winter beds for my garden (the mulcher is great, but (i)
Blaise Pascal: The Mathematical and the Intuitive Mind
Nayeli Riano at the Imaginative Conservative
Terry Teachout, RIP
Terry Teachout died
[https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/terry-teachout-19562022]. It's a
terrible loss. He was one of those writers that made you feel smarter and
better. I first started reading him when I was in college. He was the first
columnist I read when National Review showed up.
Micro-Bio: Charles Bukowski
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
That’s Charles Bukowski. The Bard of Booze. Legendary drunk, cult favorite, darling of the L.A. literary underground.
His true life stories fueled Barfly
Dorsey: Gudge Slayer? Hudge Crippler?
From the TDE Archives (early 2022)
Brownson, the Radicals, and God
Although he was a collaborator with the radical Fanny Wright (and her partner,
socialist Robert Owen), and had veered strongly toward agnosticism himself,
Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) quickly found their anti-religion stance
intellectually clumsy. The radicals taught that religion/superstition (the two
are synonymous for radicals) were coeval with the human