The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Robert Zaretsky at The American Scholar
Biography
Famous Amos
Kyle Smith at The New Criterion
The Canonization of Lou Reed
Jeremy Lybarger at The New Republic
Jon Fosse's Fiction
Jonathan Geltner at Close Reading
Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?
Darwin thought so
The Nothing Desire
“The poor monk is lord of world.” St. John Climacus
Bruno was a rising star of eleventh-century European culture. A master of the cathedral school (the precursor to the university) of Rheims, he taught grammar, poetry, philosophy and theology. He became head of Rheims by age thirty. The most promising
The Reality of Fr. Damien
A few years ago, the future of the Catholic Church AOC said a statue of Fr. Damien of Molokai at the Capitol building is an example of “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”
She quickly realized that she picked a bad example and backpedaled faster than Deion Sanders in his prime,
In Memoriam: Ellis Sandoz
David Walsh at VoegelinView
Shelby Foote: The South’s Jewish Proust
Blake Smith at The Tablet
18 Things You Can Learn from A Monk of the Eastern Church
Mystical. Passionate. Spiritual. Cranky. Monastic. Urban. Greek Orthodox. Catholic. French. English.
Anonymous. . .
. . . Lev (Leo) Gillet.
All of those words describe an unusual man who would become known to readers as “A Monk of the Eastern Church.”
He was born in France in 1893. Shortly before World War I, he became