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A collection of 124 issues

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

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. "In

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