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Conservatives and the Culture

Conservatives and the Culture

Claes Ryn, from Catholic University. A collection of his essays have just been published. The collection appears largely to recount the problem that conservatives have long been aware of: they abandoned the cultural field to the enemy. Shortly after World War II (others might date it back to 1900; others,

The Gnostics in Hollywood are Perverts

The Gnostics in Hollywood are Perverts

Existence Strikes Back Part IV explores flourishing in our postmodern, left-hemispheric, culturally-gnostic world. One of the ways to promote flourishing: avoid things that are culturally gnostic and left-hemispheric, like Hollywood.

Introductions to and Summaries of The Hemisphere Hypothesis

Introductions to and Summaries of The Hemisphere Hypothesis

By the Master Himself Resist the Machine Apocalypse | Iain McGilchristNo two ways about it: We are making ourselves wretched. We are more affluent than ever, but . . . .First ThingsIain McGilchrist The Best The thing about things | The New CriterionJonathan Gaisman on The Thing With Things by Iain McGilchrist.Vol. 42, No.

How You Attend to the World Changes What You Find There

How You Attend to the World Changes What You Find There

And if you attend sloppily, what you'll find is slop Do you want to understand what you're thinking about? Then think as clearly about it as possible. Do you want to think clearly about something? Then think in clear terms. On the flip side, if you

Fine Prose or Trashy Prose: Is There No Third Way?

Fine Prose or Trashy Prose: Is There No Third Way?

I want to encourage young writers, even if it is a poor man’s game. [I]f you want to write well and live well at the same time, you’d better arrange to inherit money or marry a stockbroker or a rich woman who can operate a typewriter. Flannery

Localism and the Importance of Laboratories

Localism and the Importance of Laboratories

If localities have self-determination, it results in a country full of mini-laboratories where we can figure out what works and what doesn't. Granted, in the localities that practice oppression and hatred, things will be miserable, but at least people can leave. If enough people leave, the people who

Aristotle to Aquinas to Pieper: Leisure Solves Nothing. That's What Makes it Counter-Conduct

Aristotle to Aquinas to Pieper: Leisure Solves Nothing. That's What Makes it Counter-Conduct

In the tradition that runs from Aristotle through Aquinas to Josef Pieper, leisure is not a solution to anything, but an alternative way of being in the world. In Pieper’s formulation, leisure “runs at right angles” to the practical pursuits of work and achievement. Leisure and Liberality | Elizabeth C.

Why We are Culturally Gnostic

Why We are Culturally Gnostic

I'd re-title David Brooks' recent op-ed about progressive sadness, "The Gnostification of America." He touches on four of Voegelin's six gnostic traits (and the other two are also present, but op-eds need to be short), starting with discontent. He points out that liberals

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover, I Suppose

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover, I Suppose

I know nothing about this book except what I read in this review. If the reviewer is honest, the publisher isn't. Of course, the publisher is Doubleday, which is probably about as mainstream (corporate, legacy, establishment) media as you get, so it shouldn't surprise me that

The Antihumanist and Transhumanist Cometh

The Antihumanist and Transhumanist Cometh

I posted this review-essay for one reason: I've been seeing Adam Kirsch's name a lot in The New Criterion and First Things (and other places). I guess his name has been popping up in those journals for years and I just hadn't noticed. Anyway,