The Continuing Importance of Thomas Sowell
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Topic
Biography
A collection of 123 issues
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
What’s that Twitter Imp Up to?
From the Archives (January 2021)
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