Nature is Healing
Sam Kriss and The Lamp
Modernity
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
Science and Magic
The historian of intellectual history, Frances Yates, wrote extensively about the realm of magical pursuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in particular about hermeticism and its legendary eponymous source, Hermes Trismegistus. Yates points out that Renaissance magic--through characters such as Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Campanella, and Cornelius Agrippa--reached its apex
Front Porch Republic and Modernity
If you weren't aware, Front Porch Republic is the Internet's premier proponent of localism. Bill Kauffman started it (with others, if memory serves). Though he doesn't make a lot of appearances there, the site is in the talented hands of Jeff Bilbro, who puts
Some Notes Regarding the Conservatism of Walker Percy
How would a cat react if deprived of sleep? How does a car perform when deprived of oil? What happens to babies if no one holds them?
I don't know how the cat would react, but I bet it would grow highly irritable and eventually violent. The car,