Starting the Trip: The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
At $150, I'm trusting the trip will be worth it.
Books
One of the Finest Saint Books Ever
Robert Payne, The Holy Fire (1957). A Micro-Review
Autocomplete: Coming to Terms with Our New Textual Culture
By Richard Gibson at Hedgehog Review
Civilization is Slow Hard Work: A Review of Lee Oser’s “Old Enemies”
Darrell Falconburg at VoegelinView
Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972’: Human Empathy and Political Savvy that Today’s Political Propagandists Lack
By David Mikics at The Tablet
The New Moral Mathematics
By Kieran Setiya at the Boston Review
Tolkien Wasn’t Politically Correct. Rings of Power Is. That’s Just the Most Surface Symptom of this Diseased Production
There are two types of people in the world: Tolkien fans and everyone else.
This series appeals to neither.
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings: Telling Stories to Save Lives
By Rachel Lu: America Magazine
The Pascal of the Pandemic
By David Black
From City Journal
Flannery O’Connor on Sin and Politics
By Darrell Falconburg
From The Imaginative Conservative