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A collection of 120 issues

The First Catholic Cleric to Go Over to Saruman (and the Left Hemisphere)?

In the early nineteenth century, the “tormented, headstrong Breton priest”[1] Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais changed fundamental Christian doctrines to justify socialism. His career illustrates the damage that can be done by presenting socialism as authentic religious doctrine, especially when an individual or group has established the illusion of orthodoxy

On Milosz, Exile, and Humane Art

Rachel E. Hicks at Front Porch Republic

Matt Taibbi Is Still an Outsider

Charlie Tidmarsh at Real Clear Wire

How to Become a Great Man or Woman

For starters, read about the great men and women Merely by thinking about certain sorts of people at all . . . we become objectively, measurably, more like them, in how we behave, think and feel. Iain McGilchrist Ask a college professor this question: “Did Moses write the Torah or did the Torah

One Vicious Author

You remember the 1987 movie, Throw Mama from the Train? I learned last night that it was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 movie, Strangers on a Train, which was in turn based on the novel by the same name. The author of the novel? Patricia Highsmith, a nasty

Huberman Attack

I struggled about whether to post this story. I really like the Huberman podcast and this reporter wrote this story to show (by implication) that Huberman is a fake because he has demons . . . including a big libido. The thing is, I've always figured Huberman must have pretty serious

Was Albert Jay Nock Like Socrates?

Nock’s Memoirs is the figurative equivalent of Socrates drinking the hemlock. But both are suicides that were necessary in light of their worldview. Nock’s Memoirs is his way of getting involved: the only way he could get involved and live true to his principles.

Henry Fowler and Ernest Gowers

Henry Fowler (1858-1933) wrote A Dictionary of Modern English Usage after a career of pretty much nothing. He worked hard; he was honest and honorable, but he had never amounted to much: teacher, journalist, soldier (lying about his 57 years so he could fight), and editor. But then, in 1925,

William Cobbett: Radical

Plough publishes pretty pieces. This piece about the 19th-century radical William Cobbett is the latest. It discusses the centralization of agriculture that took place in England in the early 1800s and Cobbett's resistance (which made him one of GKC's heroes; he wrote a biography about him)

How to Hate Jordan Peterson

My man Ayodeji Awosika came out with a great piece at Medium.com awhile back: 12 Rules for Hating Jordan Peterson. This Jordan piece is a monster, consisting of nearly 4,000 words (Medium.com measures its stories by reading time: 265 WPM; this article is 14 minutes long . . . do