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Repair Culture on the Rise?

Repair Culture on the Rise?

The new issue of Plough magazine pushes for a return to repairing things. The thrust of this new movement: "throwaway culture" is creating all sorts of problems, from landfills to euthanasia. And big business is the reason. Starting in 1923, it stopped making products intended to last for

Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?

Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?

Darwin thought so

Left Hemisphere v. Right Hemisphere. Specific Differences in a Two-Column Format

Left Hemisphere v. Right Hemisphere. Specific Differences in a Two-Column Format

Drink that Pint: Flex Your Right Hemisphere, Spit at that Gnostic

Drink that Pint: Flex Your Right Hemisphere, Spit at that Gnostic

Pubs are closing at an alarming rate, possibly as many as 50 every month. Rising energy rates are the immediate culprit, but so is an increasing tendency among Brits to be "economical" and drink at home. It's a problem: The death of the local pub, like

More Guys Need to Get to the Trad Mass

More Guys Need to Get to the Trad Mass

The women described in his piece (the "hoes") are taken straight from the movies and other pop culture. They're also taken straight from real life (art mirrors life). But not all young women are like this. Not remotely. Some young women don't think family

"On the Heart," by The Pseudo-Macarius

"On the Heart," by The Pseudo-Macarius

Every sin gushes from a complex soul. The Pseudo-Macarius, a master of intimate theology, described the heart (a term nearly synonymous with soul) as follows: "The heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the

Trying to Figure Out How We Got Into These Rationalist Cocoons

Trying to Figure Out How We Got Into These Rationalist Cocoons

And the cocoons' severe limitations

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase, by Arthur Quinn

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase, by Arthur Quinn

Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I went on a crash GKC diet in my twenties. In addition to a score of Chesterton books, I read three biographies about the great man, plus his Autobiography. But I realized earlier this month that I had never read the first biography, which was written by his friend, Maisie

The Rise of Satire

The Rise of Satire

Have you heard of the Scriblerus Club? It was an authors’ club founded in London in 1714. It was known for its satiric bent. Jonathan Swift was a member. Western culture had long enjoyed satire, but there was a great satiric revival right after Descartes. Satire became huge. Can we