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Botoxing Beauty

Botoxing Beauty

💡This "non-story" appeared yesterday at Catholic365. Practical problems require darker powers. The British writer G.K. Chesterton made that observation a hundred years ago, noting that people have always a "secret and perverse feeling that the darker powers would really do things." A corollary idea came

Propaganda and Love of the Ugly

Propaganda and Love of the Ugly

Anthony Daniels (a/k/a "Theodore Dalrymple") at The New Criterion

Will New York Be the Old Babylon?

Will New York Be the Old Babylon?

I thought NYC would rebound quickly after COVID and De Blasio, but it just can't seem to get its act together.

The Battle Between Macroculture and Microculture Is Turning into a War

The Battle Between Macroculture and Microculture Is Turning into a War

Ted Gioia at The Honest Broker

In the Shallows: Why Do Public Intellectuals Condescend to Their Readers

In the Shallows: Why Do Public Intellectuals Condescend to Their Readers

Becca Rothfeld at The Yale Review

The Clash and the Angry Left, Circa 1977

The Clash and the Angry Left, Circa 1977

I've been getting into The Clash lately. Okay, okay: this probably isn't the appropriate season for the music of an angry Socialist punk band (it ain't Bing Crosby's “White Christmas” album), but I couldn't help it. I got pulled in

Catholic Hagiographer Did LSD

Catholic Hagiographer Did LSD

It inspired a musical currently playing at NYC's Lincoln Center Clare Boothe Luce. Brainy and beautiful. Married mega-publisher Henry Luce in 1935. Converted to Catholicism in 1946, then put together one of the greatest collections of short saint biographies ever. Did LSD? James Lapine, the director and librettist

One Mean Chick? Or Just an Unfortunate Alignment of Facial Features?

One Mean Chick? Or Just an Unfortunate Alignment of Facial Features?

Does the person who creates an air of discomfort with the RBF have a level of moral culpability? The RBF: resting bitch face. An innocent and harmless expression? Or a culpable and harmful one? I started wondering about that after reading Jacques Philippe's observation in Real Mercy that

The Age of Average

The Age of Average

Alex Murrel at Alex Murrell dot com

Good Conversation and the Talking Cure: A Review

Good Conversation and the Talking Cure: A Review

Amanda Patchin at Front Porch Republic