Was the Episcopalian Judy Garland Too Jewish for Her Own Good?
From Forward magazine
History
On Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
From The New Criterion
Historians can be divided into followers of Herodotus (the storytellers) and Thucydides (the fact-grubbers)
From the The Wall Street Journal
Life and Times of Booth Tarkington
From The Worthy House
A Room with a Feud
Literary criticism used to be terribly clever and terribly savage.
Is the New Left the Old Occult?
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
Montaigne: The Godfather of 4Chan?
💡Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us modernity, its fierce subjectivism, and the parade of “little gods” that have marred the last 200+ years.
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Why the Marxist Kicks You in the Groin
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman. It is not possible to engage in controversy with him as one engages in controversy with other men. He invariably hits below the belt if he can; indeed, his resentment is not so
Everything You Wanted to Know about Bohemianism
But were afraid you'd get an erection
Those Hippy Puritans
Exploring America's Millenarian Movements
💡The Puritans were Gnostics. If you understand Puritans, you start to understand modern Gnosticism. If you understand modern Gnosticism, you begin to see the glaring problem that is modernity.
We are a nation held together, paradoxically, by the agonism of conflicting millenarian projections: communists,