Topic
Biography
A collection of 124 issues
Bawdy Premodern and Postmodern
RabelaisOne of my favorite writers, Albert Jay Nock, was a huge Rabelais fan. He wrote two books about him. From the first: It must be laid down once and for all, that the chief purpose of reading a classic like Rabelais is to prop and stay the spirit, especially inThe
1273: Apex of Western Civilization
December 6, 1273.
That's the date St. Thomas Aquinas had such an intense experience or vision during Mass, that he stopped writing.
For 35 years, Aquinas had used the written word to explain pretty much everything. He provided proofs of God's existence that atheists still struggle
Six Observations from a Habsburg Sympathizer
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn might have been the world's most fascinating man
Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan
“Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot medium is one that extends one of our senses. A cool medium is one that requires a lot from one of our senses.
Absinthe Minded
Barnaby Conrad III at the New Criterion
Blessed Henri de Lubac?
George Weigel at First Things
Why I am Now a Christian
Ayaan Hirsi Ali at UnHerd
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Robert Zaretsky at The American Scholar
Famous Amos
Kyle Smith at The New Criterion