Topic
History
A collection of 251 issues
Emil Lunden: Blasphemer to Believer
He wanted to forge the ultimate artifact of our unraveling age: black metal songs so steeped in malice that they might summon the demons. The Faust wannabe threw himself at Latin grammars to unearth lyrics to curdle the soul. He hadn't reckoned with the Desert Fathers.
Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts
A little Coptic history, a feast day to remember, and a great drink I concocted from my garden produce.
Benedict in the City
My Kindle’s a cluttered attic, stuffed with a few books I pick at like a vulture when the mood strikes. Nothing I’d sink into, just odds and ends for those moments when the world’s noise gets too shrill.
One of them’s E. Michael Jones’ Benedict’s
Why Weak Fools Can Dominate
Exploring the fool in Christ and the fool in Antichrist. Ivan the Terrible v. Nicholas of Pskov. Nietzsche v. Everyone
Thank Samuel Johnson for the Jane Austen Revival
Without his “Dictionary,” you probably wouldn't be able to make sense of “Sense and Sensibility”
History of Western Civilization in Just Five Minutes
My first Substack project. It might take ten minutes, btw.
Bill Kauffman on the Subjugation of Canada and Neil Young's Sanity
Bill Kauffman at The American Conservative
We Either Flee Devils or Fight Them
Toward the end of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield tells himself he will move out West and shut himself off from everyone and everything, possibly by posing as a deaf-mute.
If he pretends to be a deaf-mute, he reasons, people would have to write messages to
Magic in Everyday Renaissance Europe
Laura Miller at Slate